giving
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The verdict
“giving” is uncommon German (frequency #66,271 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,271
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs give
Corpus desk
Index DE-giving · giving · German
giving · rank #66,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,271
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gesungene
Nearest frequency peer: gesungene (-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 „giving“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gestaltungen
Gestaltungen
33,733 corpus weight
- gestohlenes
gestohlenes
33,732 corpus weight
- gesungene
gesungene
33,731 corpus weight
- giving
giving
33,730 corpus weight
- glanzvollen
glanzvollen
33,729 corpus weight
- gleichgesch…
gleichgeschaltet
33,728 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „giving“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | giving |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „giving“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
giving is uncommon German at frequency #66,271 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs give".
giving has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is giving, spelled G-I-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs give
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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