kleb
[kleːp]
The verdict
“kleb” is uncommon German (frequency #68,396 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,396
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kleben
Corpus desk
Index DE-kleb · kleb · German
kleb · rank #68,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,396
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Klassenarbeit
Nearest frequency peer: Klassenarbeit (-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 “kleb”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kiwis
Kiwis
31,608 corpus weight
- klarsten
klarsten
31,607 corpus weight
- Klassenarbe…
Klassenarbeit
31,606 corpus weight
- kleb
kleb
31,605 corpus weight
- Kleiber
Kleiber
31,604 corpus weight
- Kleister
Kleister
31,603 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “kleb” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kleb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kleːp] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “kleb” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
kleb is uncommon German at frequency #68,396 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kleːp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kleben".
kleb has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is kleb, spelled K-L-E-B.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kleben
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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