krankt
[kʁaŋkt]
The verdict
“krankt” is uncommon German (frequency #68,409 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,409
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kranken
Corpus desk
Index DE-krankt · krankt · German
krankt · rank #68,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,409
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kreierten
Nearest frequency peer: kreierten (+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 „krankt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Konterfei
Konterfei
31,596 corpus weight
- Kooperation…
Kooperationsvertrag
31,594 corpus weight
- krankt
krankt
31,592 corpus weight
- kreierten
kreierten
31,591 corpus weight
- kreisrunde
kreisrunde
31,590 corpus weight
- kreisrunden
kreisrunden
31,589 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „krankt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | krankt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kʁaŋkt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „krankt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
krankt is uncommon German at frequency #68,409 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kʁaŋkt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for krankt, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 krankt, spelled K-R-A-N-K-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kranken
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kranken
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kranken
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "krankt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).