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
- Endlagerung
Endlagerung
32,833 corpus weight
- Energieträg…
Energieträgern
32,832 corpus weight
- engines
engines
32,830 corpus weight
- entkoppelt
entkoppelt
32,829 corpus weight
- Entscheidun…
Entscheidungsspiel
32,828 corpus weight
- entstünde
entstünde
32,827 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „engines“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engines |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „engines“ im Deutschen
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
- 1Plural 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.
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