diving
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The verdict
“diving” is uncommon German (frequency #92,778 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,778
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs dive
Corpus desk
Index DE-diving · diving · German
diving · rank #92,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,778
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH divergent
Nearest frequency peer: divergent (-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 „diving“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- dialogue
dialogue
7,229 corpus weight
- Dienstauswe…
Dienstausweis
7,227 corpus weight
- Diven
Diven
7,225 corpus weight
- divergent
divergent
7,224 corpus weight
- diving
diving
7,223 corpus weight
- draufgekomm…
draufgekommen
7,218 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „diving“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diving |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „diving“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
diving is uncommon German at frequency #92,778 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs dive".
diving has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is diving, spelled D-I-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs dive
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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