measures
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The verdict
“measures” is uncommon German (frequency #83,056 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,056
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs measure
Corpus desk
Index DE-measures · measures · German
measures · rank #83,056 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,056
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Medaillengewi…
Nearest frequency peer: Medaillengewinner (+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 „measures“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Maryam
Maryam
16,951 corpus weight
- masses
masses
16,950 corpus weight
- Maultier
Maultier
16,947 corpus weight
- measures
measures
16,945 corpus weight
- Medaillenge…
Medaillengewinner
16,944 corpus weight
- Metalls
Metalls
16,939 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „measures“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | measures |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „measures“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
measures is uncommon German at frequency #83,056 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs measure".
Zero misspellings are on record for measures in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is measures, spelled M-E-A-S-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs measure
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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