customs
[ˈkʌstəms]
The verdict
“customs” is uncommon German (frequency #70,144 among 20,081 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,144
- frequency rank, German
- 20,081
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs custom
Corpus desk
Index DE-customs · customs · German
customs · rank #70,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,144
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 20,081
- PHOTO-FINISH Cortison
Nearest frequency peer: Cortison (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “customs”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Comtesse
Comtesse
29,863 corpus weight
- conventions
conventions
29,860 corpus weight
- Cortison
Cortison
29,859 corpus weight
- customs
customs
29,857 corpus weight
- Denner
Denner
29,852 corpus weight
- dezenter
dezenter
29,851 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “customs” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | customs |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʌstəms] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “customs” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
customs is uncommon German at frequency #70,144 among 20,081 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʌstəms]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs custom".
No misspelling variants are generated for customs in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 customs, spelled C-U-S-T-O-M-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs custom
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.