broadcasting

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The verdict

“broadcasting” is uncommon German (frequency #69,072 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,072
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs broadcast

Corpus desk

Index DE-broadcasting · broadcasting · German

broadcasting · rank #69,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,072
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH brevis

Nearest frequency peer: brevis (-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 „broadcasting“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „broadcasting“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for broadcasting
PropertyValue
Headwordbroadcasting
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters12
Frequency rank#69,072
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „broadcasting“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.broadcastingfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „brevis“ (#69,071), „breiteten“ (#69,070), „Brunei“ (#69,074). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „broadcasting“ bei #69,072. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

broadcasting is uncommon German at frequency #69,072 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs broadcast".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for broadcasting, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is broadcasting, spelled B-R-O-A-D-C-A-S-T-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs broadcast

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "broadcasting"?
"broadcasting" is spelled B-R-O-A-D-C-A-S-T-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "broadcasting" mean?
As a verb, "broadcasting" means: Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs broadcast
How do you pronounce "broadcasting"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "broadcasting", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list