selling
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The verdict
“selling” is uncommon German (frequency #54,880 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,880
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs sell
Corpus desk
Index DE-selling · selling · German
selling · rank #54,880 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,880
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH selektiert
Nearest frequency peer: selektiert (-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 „selling“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Segnung
Segnung
45,124 corpus weight
- sehnte
sehnte
45,123 corpus weight
- selektiert
selektiert
45,122 corpus weight
- selling
selling
45,121 corpus weight
- sensibles
sensibles
45,120 corpus weight
- Simmern
Simmern
45,117 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „selling“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | selling |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „selling“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
selling is uncommon German at frequency #54,880 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs sell".
No misspelling variants are generated for selling in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is selling, spelled S-E-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs sell
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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