leaving
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The verdict
“leaving” is uncommon German (frequency #79,434 among 30,953 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,434
- frequency rank, German
- 30,953
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs leave
Corpus desk
Index DE-leaving · leaving · German
leaving · rank #79,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,434
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 30,953
- PHOTO-FINISH Lebanon
Nearest frequency peer: Lebanon (+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 “leaving”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Landsfrau
Landsfrau
20,572 corpus weight
- lauteste
lauteste
20,570 corpus weight
- leaving
leaving
20,567 corpus weight
- Lebanon
Lebanon
20,566 corpus weight
- Lebensspanne
Lebensspanne
20,565 corpus weight
- lectures
lectures
20,563 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “leaving” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leaving |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leaving” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
leaving is uncommon German at frequency #79,434 among 30,953 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs leave".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for leaving, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is leaving, spelled L-E-A-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs leave
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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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.