funding
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The verdict
“funding” is uncommon German (frequency #81,559 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,559
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs fund
Corpus desk
Index DE-funding · funding · German
funding · rank #81,559 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,559
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Frühchen
Nearest frequency peer: Frühchen (-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 „funding“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- frontale
frontale
18,445 corpus weight
- Frühbucher
Frühbucher
18,444 corpus weight
- Frühchen
Frühchen
18,443 corpus weight
- funding
funding
18,442 corpus weight
- Fundorten
Fundorten
18,441 corpus weight
- Fundsachen
Fundsachen
18,440 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „funding“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | funding |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „funding“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
funding is uncommon German at frequency #81,559 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs fund".
funding has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is funding, spelled F-U-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs fund
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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