develop
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The verdict
“develop” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas entwickeln oder vorhandenes weiterentwickeln
Corpus desk
Index DE-develop · develop · German
develop · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | develop |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „develop“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
develop is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas entwickeln oder vorhandenes weiterentwickeln".
Zero misspellings are on record for develop in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is develop, spelled D-E-V-E-L-O-P.
Definition
- 1etwas entwickeln oder vorhandenes weiterentwickeln
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how develop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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