leading
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The verdict
“leading” is uncommon German (frequency #55,505 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,505
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs lead
Corpus desk
Index DE-leading · leading · German
leading · rank #55,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,505
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH lauwarm
Nearest frequency peer: lauwarm (-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 „leading“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Laufes
Laufes
44,499 corpus weight
- Laupheim
Laupheim
44,498 corpus weight
- lauwarm
lauwarm
44,497 corpus weight
- leading
leading
44,496 corpus weight
- lebensbedro…
lebensbedrohliche
44,495 corpus weight
- leert
leert
44,494 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „leading“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leading |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „leading“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
leading is uncommon German at frequency #55,505 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs lead".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for leading, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is leading, spelled L-E-A-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs lead
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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