lifting

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The verdict

“lifting” is uncommon German (frequency #91,894 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,894
frequency rank, German
2,640
“L” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs lift

Corpus desk

Index DE-lifting · lifting · German

lifting · rank #91,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,894
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,640
  • PHOTO-FINISH Liederabend

Nearest frequency peer: Liederabend (-2 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 „lifting“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „lifting“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for lifting
PropertyValue
Headwordlifting
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#91,894
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „lifting“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).liftingfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Liederabend“ (#91,892), „Lichtbogen“ (#91,891), „linguistisch“ (#91,897). Unter 2,640 „L“-Lemmata liegt „lifting“ bei #91,894. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

lifting is uncommon German at frequency #91,894 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs lift".

lifting has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is lifting, spelled L-I-F-T-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs lift

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lifting"?
"lifting" is spelled L-I-F-T-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "lifting" mean?
As a verb, "lifting" means: Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs lift
How do you pronounce "lifting"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lifting" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lifting" come from?
"lifting" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lifting", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Litanei#91,898leitest#91,884löschst#91,910machend#91,913

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list