loving
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The verdict
“loving” is uncommon German (frequency #53,878 among 30,953 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,878
- frequency rank, German
- 30,953
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs love
Corpus desk
Index DE-loving · loving · German
loving · rank #53,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,878
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 30,953
- PHOTO-FINISH luce
Nearest frequency peer: luce (+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 “loving”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Loggia
Loggia
46,126 corpus weight
- Lokalitäten
Lokalitäten
46,125 corpus weight
- loving
loving
46,123 corpus weight
- luce
luce
46,122 corpus weight
- luftig
luftig
46,121 corpus weight
- Länderspiel…
Länderspielpause
46,120 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “loving” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loving |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “loving” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
loving is uncommon German at frequency #53,878 among 30,953 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs love".
No misspelling variants are generated for loving in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is loving, spelled L-O-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs love
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 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.