pines
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The verdict
“pines” is uncommon German (frequency #76,057 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,057
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pine
Corpus desk
Index DE-pines · pines · German
pines · rank #76,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,057
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH pinker
Nearest frequency peer: pinker (+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 „pines“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- petzen
petzen
23,948 corpus weight
- pflegerische
pflegerische
23,946 corpus weight
- pines
pines
23,944 corpus weight
- pinker
pinker
23,943 corpus weight
- Plastikbeut…
Plastikbeutel
23,942 corpus weight
- Plastizität
Plastizität
23,941 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „pines“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pines |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „pines“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
pines is uncommon German at frequency #76,057 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pine".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pines, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is pines, spelled P-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pine
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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