Edding
[ˈɛdɪŋ]
The verdict
“Edding” is uncommon German (frequency #54,460 among 57,060 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,460
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Filzstift
Corpus desk
Index DE-edding · Edding · German
Edding · rank #54,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,460
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 57,060
- PHOTO-FINISH editions
Nearest frequency peer: editions (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Edding”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- durchsuchte
durchsuchte
45,546 corpus weight
- EBA
EBA
45,544 corpus weight
- Edding
Edding
45,541 corpus weight
- editions
editions
45,540 corpus weight
- eggs
eggs
45,539 corpus weight
- Eidechse
Eidechse
45,537 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Edding” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Edding |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛdɪŋ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Edding” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Edding is uncommon German at frequency #54,460 among 57,060 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɛdɪŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Filzstift".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Edding, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Edding, spelled E-D-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Filzstift
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.