Dinges
[dɪŋəs]
The verdict
“Dinges” is uncommon German (frequency #85,124 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,124
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Ding
Corpus desk
Index DE-dinges · Dinges · German
Dinges · rank #85,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,124
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH DINK
Nearest frequency peer: DINK (+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 „Dinges“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- dilettantis…
dilettantisch
14,879 corpus weight
- Dinges
Dinges
14,877 corpus weight
- DINK
DINK
14,876 corpus weight
- dips
dips
14,874 corpus weight
- dla
dla
14,873 corpus weight
- Dobermann
Dobermann
14,872 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Dinges“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dinges |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɪŋəs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Dinges“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Dinges is uncommon German at frequency #85,124 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [dɪŋəs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Ding".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dinges in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Dinges, spelled D-I-N-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Ding
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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