aspire
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The verdict
“aspire” is uncommon German (frequency #92,601 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,601
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas anstreben, etwas erstreben
Corpus desk
Index DE-aspire · aspire · German
aspire · rank #92,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,601
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Ashford
Nearest frequency peer: Ashford (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „aspire“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Arsenals
Arsenals
7,404 corpus weight
- Ashford
Ashford
7,401 corpus weight
- aspire
aspire
7,400 corpus weight
- Auerhahn
Auerhahn
7,399 corpus weight
- aufgesaugt
aufgesaugt
7,398 corpus weight
- aufkeimende
aufkeimende
7,397 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „aspire“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspire |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „aspire“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
aspire is uncommon German at frequency #92,601 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas anstreben, etwas erstreben".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aspire, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is aspire, spelled A-S-P-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1etwas anstreben, etwas erstreben
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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