canning
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The verdict
“canning” is uncommon German (frequency #96,787 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,787
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs can
Corpus desk
Index DE-canning · canning · German
canning · rank #96,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,787
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Calvinismus
Nearest frequency peer: Calvinismus (-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 „canning“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bünden
Bünden
3,218 corpus weight
- Bützow
Bützow
3,216 corpus weight
- Calvinismus
Calvinismus
3,215 corpus weight
- canning
canning
3,214 corpus weight
- carvalho
carvalho
3,210 corpus weight
- Catsuit
Catsuit
3,209 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „canning“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canning |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „canning“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
canning is uncommon German at frequency #96,787 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs can".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for canning, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is canning, spelled C-A-N-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs can
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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