sells
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The verdict
“sells” is uncommon German (frequency #82,129 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,129
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs sell
Corpus desk
Index DE-sells · sells · German
sells · rank #82,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,129
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH selbstsüchtig
Nearest frequency peer: selbstsüchtig (-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 „sells“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Seitensprün…
Seitensprünge
17,875 corpus weight
- selbstsücht…
selbstsüchtig
17,873 corpus weight
- sells
sells
17,872 corpus weight
- senile
senile
17,871 corpus weight
- Sensors
Sensors
17,870 corpus weight
- separiert
separiert
17,869 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sells“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sells |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sells“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sells is uncommon German at frequency #82,129 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs sell".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sells, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is sells, spelled S-E-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs 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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