looping

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The verdict

“looping” is uncommon German (frequency #71,593 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#71,593
frequency rank, German
2,640
“L” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index DE-looping · looping · German

looping · rank #71,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #71,593
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,640
  • PHOTO-FINISH Logistikunter…

Nearest frequency peer: Logistikunternehmen (-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 „looping“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for looping
PropertyValue
Headwordlooping
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#71,593
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „looping“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).loopingfällt 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: „Logistikunternehmen“ (#71,592), „Lotterien“ (#71,594), „Lochs“ (#71,590). Unter 2,640 „L“-Lemmata liegt „looping“ bei #71,593. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

looping is uncommon German at frequency #71,593 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs loop".

looping doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is looping, spelled L-O-O-P-I-N-G.

Definition

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

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 "looping"?
"looping" is spelled L-O-O-P-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "looping" mean?
As a verb, "looping" means: Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs loop
How do you pronounce "looping"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "looping" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "looping" come from?
"looping" 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 "looping", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list