seek
[siːk]
The verdict
“seek” is uncommon German (frequency #88,273 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,273
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich bemühen, etwas oder jemanden zu finden; suchen, aufspüren
Corpus desk
Index DE-seek · seek · German
seek · rank #88,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,273
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Seehafen
Nearest frequency peer: Seehafen (-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 „seek“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sechzehnten
sechzehnten
11,732 corpus weight
- Seehafen
Seehafen
11,729 corpus weight
- seek
seek
11,728 corpus weight
- Sektionschef
Sektionschef
11,727 corpus weight
- selbstgerec…
selbstgerecht
11,726 corpus weight
- Selbstlosig…
Selbstlosigkeit
11,725 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „seek“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seek |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [siːk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „seek“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
seek is uncommon German at frequency #88,273 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [siːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich bemühen, etwas oder jemanden zu finden; suchen, aufspüren".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for seek, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is seek, spelled S-E-E-K.
Definition
- 1sich bemühen, etwas oder jemanden zu finden; suchen, aufspüren
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how seek appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The people sought for the kids for more than ten hours.
Synonyms
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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