dawdling
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The verdict
“dawdling” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs dawdle
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Index DE-dawdling · dawdling · German
dawdling · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dawdling |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „dawdling“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
dawdling is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs dawdle".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dawdling, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is dawdling, spelled D-A-W-D-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs dawdle
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.