floating
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The verdict
“floating” is uncommon German (frequency #68,222 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,222
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs float
Corpus desk
Index DE-floating · floating · German
floating · rank #68,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,222
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH flitzen
Nearest frequency peer: flitzen (-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 „floating“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fleischwurst
Fleischwurst
31,782 corpus weight
- flitzen
flitzen
31,780 corpus weight
- floating
floating
31,779 corpus weight
- Florin
Florin
31,778 corpus weight
- Flüchtlings…
Flüchtlingsrat
31,777 corpus weight
- forschende
forschende
31,776 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „floating“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | floating |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „floating“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
floating is uncommon German at frequency #68,222 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs float".
No generated misspelling entries exist for floating in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is floating, spelled F-L-O-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs float
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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