cooking

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The verdict

“cooking” is uncommon German (frequency #57,757 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,757
frequency rank, German
1,273
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs cook

Corpus desk

Index DE-cooking · cooking · German

cooking · rank #57,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,757
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,273
  • PHOTO-FINISH Computerprogr…

Nearest frequency peer: Computerprogramm (-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 „cooking“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „cooking“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cooking
PropertyValue
Headwordcooking
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#57,757
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „cooking“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.cookingfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Computerprogramm“ (#57,756), „Cosby“ (#57,758), „codiert“ (#57,755). Unter 1,273 „C“-Lemmata liegt „cooking“ bei #57,757. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cooking is uncommon German at frequency #57,757 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs cook".

No misspelling variants are generated for cooking in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is cooking, spelled C-O-O-K-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs cook

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cooking"?
"cooking" is spelled C-O-O-K-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "cooking" mean?
As a verb, "cooking" means: Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs cook
How do you pronounce "cooking"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cooking" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cooking", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

codiert#57,755Dementi#57,765Derivat#57,767Drossel#57,781

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list