printing
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The verdict
“printing” is uncommon German (frequency #71,729 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,729
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs print
Corpus desk
Index DE-printing · printing · German
printing · rank #71,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,729
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pressetext
Nearest frequency peer: Pressetext (-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 „printing“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Postulat
Postulat
28,276 corpus weight
- Potts
Potts
28,275 corpus weight
- Pressetext
Pressetext
28,273 corpus weight
- printing
printing
28,272 corpus weight
- Privatferns…
Privatfernsehen
28,271 corpus weight
- Produktions…
Produktionsmitteln
28,269 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „printing“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | printing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „printing“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
printing is uncommon German at frequency #71,729 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs print".
Zero misspellings are on record for printing in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is printing, spelled P-R-I-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs print
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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