quack
[kwmæk]
The verdict
“quack” is uncommon German (frequency #73,913 among 216 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,913
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Geräusche wie eine Ente machen; quaken
Corpus desk
Index DE-quack · quack · German
quack · rank #73,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,913
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH Pumpwerk
Nearest frequency peer: Pumpwerk (-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 “quack”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- psy
psy
26,092 corpus weight
- pudelwohl
pudelwohl
26,090 corpus weight
- Pumpwerk
Pumpwerk
26,089 corpus weight
- quack
quack
26,088 corpus weight
- quadratisch…
quadratischer
26,087 corpus weight
- quart
quart
26,085 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “quack” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quack |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kwmæk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “quack” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
quack is uncommon German at frequency #73,913 among 216 “Q” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kwmæk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Geräusche wie eine Ente machen; quaken".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quack, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is quack, spelled Q-U-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Geräusche wie eine Ente machen; quaken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The duck quacked.
I quack like a duck to amuse my two-year-old.
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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