currency
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The verdict
“currency” is uncommon German (frequency #76,655 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,655
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Währung
Corpus desk
Index DE-currency · currency · German
currency · rank #76,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,655
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH crying
Nearest frequency peer: crying (-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 „currency“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Cracks
Cracks
23,351 corpus weight
- cruisen
cruisen
23,349 corpus weight
- crying
crying
23,348 corpus weight
- currency
currency
23,346 corpus weight
- Dalmatiner
Dalmatiner
23,344 corpus weight
- dames
dames
23,343 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „currency“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | currency |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „currency“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
currency is uncommon German at frequency #76,655 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Währung".
currency has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is currency, spelled C-U-R-R-E-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Währung
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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