quin
[kwin]
The verdict
“quin” is uncommon German (frequency #67,614 among 216 “Q” headwords), classed as an unknown. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,614
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Akkusativ Plural des Relativpronomens qua
Corpus desk
Index DE-quin · quin · German
quin · rank #67,614 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,614
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH Querfurt
Nearest frequency peer: Querfurt (-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 „quin“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Quacksalber
Quacksalber
32,390 corpus weight
- Querfurt
Querfurt
32,388 corpus weight
- quin
quin
32,387 corpus weight
- quite
quite
32,386 corpus weight
- ranzig
ranzig
32,384 corpus weight
- Rauschmittel
Rauschmittel
32,382 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „quin“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [kwin] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „quin“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
quin is uncommon German at frequency #67,614 among 216 “Q” headwords, classed as anunknown, transcribed [kwin]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Akkusativ Plural des Relativpronomens qua".
No generated misspelling entries exist for quin in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is quin, spelled Q-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Akkusativ Plural des Relativpronomens qua
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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