ruins
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The verdict
“ruins” is uncommon German (frequency #88,227 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,227
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ruin
Corpus desk
Index DE-ruins · ruins · German
ruins · rank #88,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,227
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH rump
Nearest frequency peer: rump (+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 „ruins“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Rosanna
Rosanna
11,779 corpus weight
- Rosine
Rosine
11,778 corpus weight
- Rosse
Rosse
11,776 corpus weight
- ruins
ruins
11,774 corpus weight
- rump
rump
11,773 corpus weight
- rundete
rundete
11,771 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ruins“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruins |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ruins“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ruins is uncommon German at frequency #88,227 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ruin".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ruins, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is ruins, spelled R-U-I-N-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ruin
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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