contests
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The verdict
“contests” is uncommon German (frequency #80,220 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,220
- 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 contest
Corpus desk
Index DE-contests · contests · German
contests · rank #80,220 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,220
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Containerschi…
Nearest frequency peer: Containerschiff (-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 „contests“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- coman
coman
19,785 corpus weight
- Containersc…
Containerschiff
19,782 corpus weight
- contests
contests
19,781 corpus weight
- Coventry
Coventry
19,778 corpus weight
- Cree
Cree
19,777 corpus weight
- Curitiba
Curitiba
19,776 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „contests“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contests |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „contests“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
contests is uncommon German at frequency #80,220 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 contest".
contests has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is contests, spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs contest
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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