grabs
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The verdict
“grabs” is uncommon German (frequency #95,667 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,667
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs grab
Corpus desk
Index DE-grabs · grabs · German
grabs · rank #95,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,667
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gottesfurcht
Nearest frequency peer: Gottesfurcht (-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 „grabs“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gotisch
gotisch
4,336 corpus weight
- Gottesfurcht
Gottesfurcht
4,335 corpus weight
- grabs
grabs
4,334 corpus weight
- gradlinig
gradlinig
4,333 corpus weight
- Gravuren
Gravuren
4,332 corpus weight
- Grazien
Grazien
4,331 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „grabs“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grabs |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „grabs“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
grabs is uncommon German at frequency #95,667 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs grab".
grabs doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 grabs, spelled G-R-A-B-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs grab
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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