schwankend
[ˈʃvaŋkn̩t]
The verdict
“schwankend” is uncommon German (frequency #61,915 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,915
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens des Verbs schwanken
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwankend · schwankend · German
schwankend · rank #61,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,915
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schwanden
Nearest frequency peer: schwanden (-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 “schwankend”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Schulgesetz
Schulgesetz
38,089 corpus weight
- schwachsinn…
schwachsinnige
38,088 corpus weight
- schwanden
schwanden
38,087 corpus weight
- schwankend
schwankend
38,086 corpus weight
- Schwanzes
Schwanzes
38,085 corpus weight
- schwerelos
schwerelos
38,084 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “schwankend” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwankend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃvaŋkn̩t] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schwankend” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
schwankend is uncommon German at frequency #61,915 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃvaŋkn̩t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens des Verbs schwanken".
schwankend has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is schwankend, spelled S-C-H-W-A-N-K-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens des Verbs schwanken
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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