laughing
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The verdict
“laughing” is uncommon German (frequency #98,742 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,742
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs laugh
Corpus desk
Index DE-laughing · laughing · German
laughing · rank #98,742 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,742
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH laudes
Nearest frequency peer: laudes (-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 „laughing“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Landhäuser
Landhäuser
1,263 corpus weight
- laudes
laudes
1,260 corpus weight
- laughing
laughing
1,259 corpus weight
- Lausbuben
Lausbuben
1,258 corpus weight
- leibhaftige
leibhaftige
1,256 corpus weight
- Leidensgeno…
Leidensgenossen
1,255 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „laughing“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laughing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „laughing“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
laughing is uncommon German at frequency #98,742 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs laugh".
laughing has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is laughing, spelled L-A-U-G-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs laugh
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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