mentoring
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The verdict
“mentoring” is uncommon German (frequency #61,738 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,738
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs mentor
Corpus desk
Index DE-mentoring · mentoring · German
mentoring · rank #61,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,738
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,424
- PHOTO-FINISH meistverkauft…
Nearest frequency peer: meistverkauften (-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 “mentoring”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mehrfaches
mehrfaches
38,267 corpus weight
- meistverkau…
meistverkauften
38,264 corpus weight
- mentoring
mentoring
38,263 corpus weight
- Messerstech…
Messerstecher
38,261 corpus weight
- Millisekund…
Millisekunden
38,260 corpus weight
- mimen
mimen
38,259 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mentoring” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mentoring |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mentoring” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mentoring is uncommon German at frequency #61,738 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs mentor".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mentoring in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is mentoring, spelled M-E-N-T-O-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs mentor
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 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.