clothes
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The verdict
“clothes” is uncommon German (frequency #76,644 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,644
- 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 clothe
Corpus desk
Index DE-clothes · clothes · German
clothes · rank #76,644 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,644
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH clutch
Nearest frequency peer: clutch (+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 „clothes“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- chien
chien
23,360 corpus weight
- choke
choke
23,359 corpus weight
- clothes
clothes
23,357 corpus weight
- clutch
clutch
23,356 corpus weight
- Congo
Congo
23,355 corpus weight
- Containers
Containers
23,354 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „clothes“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clothes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „clothes“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
clothes is uncommon German at frequency #76,644 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 clothe".
clothes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is clothes, spelled C-L-O-T-H-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs clothe
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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