kissing
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The verdict
“kissing” is uncommon German (frequency #61,666 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,666
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs kiss
Corpus desk
Index DE-kissing · kissing · German
kissing · rank #61,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,666
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 55,078
- PHOTO-FINISH klaffen
Nearest frequency peer: klaffen (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “kissing”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kinderpornos
Kinderpornos
38,338 corpus weight
- Kinderspiel…
Kinderspielzeug
38,337 corpus weight
- kissing
kissing
38,335 corpus weight
- klaffen
klaffen
38,334 corpus weight
- Klarinetten
Klarinetten
38,333 corpus weight
- kleinert
kleinert
38,332 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “kissing” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kissing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kissing” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
kissing is uncommon German at frequency #61,666 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs kiss".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kissing, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is kissing, spelled K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs kiss
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "kissing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.