flock
[flɔk]
The verdict
“flock” is uncommon German (frequency #75,645 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,645
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs flocken
Corpus desk
Index DE-flock · flock · German
flock · rank #75,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,645
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH flinke
Nearest frequency peer: flinke (-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 „flock“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fleischprod…
Fleischproduktion
24,361 corpus weight
- Fleischwolf
Fleischwolf
24,360 corpus weight
- flinke
flinke
24,357 corpus weight
- flock
flock
24,356 corpus weight
- Flüchtlings…
Flüchtlingsunterkünften
24,355 corpus weight
- folder
folder
24,354 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „flock“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flock |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [flɔk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „flock“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
flock is uncommon German at frequency #75,645 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [flɔk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs flocken".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for flock, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is flock, spelled F-L-O-C-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs flocken
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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