engines

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The verdict

“engines” is uncommon German (frequency #67,171 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,171
frequency rank, German
4,632
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs engine

Corpus desk

Index DE-engines · engines · German

engines · rank #67,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,171
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,632
  • PHOTO-FINISH entkoppelt

Nearest frequency peer: entkoppelt (+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 „engines“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „engines“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for engines
PropertyValue
Headwordengines
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#67,171
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „engines“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).enginesfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „entkoppelt“ (#67,172), „Energieträgern“ (#67,169), „Entscheidungsspiel“ (#67,173). Unter 4,632 „E“-Lemmata liegt „engines“ bei #67,171. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

engines is uncommon German at frequency #67,171 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs engine".

No misspelling variants are generated for engines in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 engines, spelled E-N-G-I-N-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs engine

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "engines"?
"engines" is spelled E-N-G-I-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "engines" mean?
As a noun, "engines" means: Plural des Substantivs engine
How do you pronounce "engines"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "engines", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list