continuo
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The verdict
“continuo” is uncommon German (frequency #69,106 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,106
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs continuare
Corpus desk
Index DE-continuo · continuo · German
continuo · rank #69,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,106
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cornet
Nearest frequency peer: cornet (+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 „continuo“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- coma
coma
30,899 corpus weight
- commitment
commitment
30,898 corpus weight
- continuo
continuo
30,895 corpus weight
- cornet
cornet
30,894 corpus weight
- Coswig
Coswig
30,893 corpus weight
- Cremona
Cremona
30,892 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „continuo“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | continuo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „continuo“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
continuo is uncommon German at frequency #69,106 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "1. Person Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs continuare".
continuo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is continuo, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-O.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs continuare
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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