converse
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The verdict
“converse” is uncommon German (frequency #74,451 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,451
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich unterhalten, Konversation halten
Corpus desk
Index DE-converse · converse · German
converse · rank #74,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,451
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cosmic
Nearest frequency peer: cosmic (+2 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 „converse“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- ciel
ciel
25,555 corpus weight
- converse
converse
25,550 corpus weight
- cosmic
cosmic
25,548 corpus weight
- curio
curio
25,546 corpus weight
- dalia
dalia
25,545 corpus weight
- Dancefloor
Dancefloor
25,544 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „converse“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | converse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „converse“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
converse is uncommon German at frequency #74,451 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for converse, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is converse, spelled C-O-N-V-E-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1sich unterhalten, Konversation halten
- 2Bekanntschaft pflegen
- 3(nicht mehr gebraucht): Geschlechtsverkehr haben
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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