divide
[dɪvaɪd]
The verdict
“divide” is uncommon German (frequency #66,124 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,124
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - teilen, dividieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-divide · divide · German
divide · rank #66,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,124
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Distel
Nearest frequency peer: Distel (-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 „divide“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Dinosauriern
Dinosauriern
33,880 corpus weight
- Diphtherie
Diphtherie
33,879 corpus weight
- Distel
Distel
33,878 corpus weight
- divide
divide
33,877 corpus weight
- Dolche
Dolche
33,876 corpus weight
- Doppelbett
Doppelbett
33,875 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „divide“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divide |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [dɪvaɪd] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „divide“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
divide is uncommon German at frequency #66,124 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [dɪvaɪd]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "teilen, dividieren".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for divide, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is divide, spelled D-I-V-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1teilen, dividieren
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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