captains
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The verdict
“captains” is uncommon German (frequency #82,617 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,617
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs captain
Corpus desk
Index DE-captains · captains · German
captains · rank #82,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,617
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH canary
Nearest frequency peer: canary (-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 „captains“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Callboy
Callboy
17,387 corpus weight
- Cameo
Cameo
17,386 corpus weight
- canary
canary
17,385 corpus weight
- captains
captains
17,384 corpus weight
- causes
causes
17,383 corpus weight
- cel
cel
17,381 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „captains“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | captains |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „captains“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
captains is uncommon German at frequency #82,617 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs captain".
No misspelling variants are generated for captains in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is captains, spelled C-A-P-T-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs captain
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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