courts
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The verdict
“courts” is uncommon German (frequency #66,100 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,100
- 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 court
Corpus desk
Index DE-courts · courts · German
courts · rank #66,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,100
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cortes
Nearest frequency peer: cortes (-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 „courts“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- collections
collections
33,905 corpus weight
- cortes
cortes
33,902 corpus weight
- courts
courts
33,901 corpus weight
- cremig
cremig
33,900 corpus weight
- Cupcake
Cupcake
33,898 corpus weight
- Cursor
Cursor
33,897 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „courts“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | courts |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „courts“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
courts is uncommon German at frequency #66,100 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 court".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for courts, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 courts, spelled C-O-U-R-T-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs court
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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