crescent
[ˈkɹesənt]
The verdict
“crescent” is uncommon German (frequency #88,780 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,780
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Erscheinungsbild bei bestimmten Phasen des Modes; Mondsichel, Sichel
Corpus desk
Index DE-crescent · crescent · German
crescent · rank #88,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,780
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH creating
Nearest frequency peer: creating (-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 „crescent“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- courant
courant
11,226 corpus weight
- cowgirl
cowgirl
11,225 corpus weight
- creating
creating
11,222 corpus weight
- crescent
crescent
11,221 corpus weight
- Crewmitglied
Crewmitglied
11,220 corpus weight
- Dachflächen
Dachflächen
11,217 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „crescent“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crescent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɹesənt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „crescent“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
crescent is uncommon German at frequency #88,780 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɹesənt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crescent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is crescent, spelled C-R-E-S-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Erscheinungsbild bei bestimmten Phasen des Modes; Mondsichel, Sichel
- 2Halbmond
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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