contents
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The verdict
“contents” is uncommon German (frequency #58,666 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,666
- 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 content
Corpus desk
Index DE-contents · contents · German
contents · rank #58,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,666
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH chess
Nearest frequency peer: chess (-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 „contents“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Carls
Carls
41,339 corpus weight
- Chefetage
Chefetage
41,337 corpus weight
- chess
chess
41,336 corpus weight
- contents
contents
41,335 corpus weight
- conversation
conversation
41,334 corpus weight
- Cyborg
Cyborg
41,332 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „contents“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contents |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „contents“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
contents is uncommon German at frequency #58,666 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 content".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contents, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 contents, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs content
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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