singing
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The verdict
“singing” is uncommon German (frequency #66,696 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,696
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs sing
Corpus desk
Index DE-singing · singing · German
singing · rank #66,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,696
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Siedepunkt
Nearest frequency peer: Siedepunkt (-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 „singing“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Shitstorms
Shitstorms
33,308 corpus weight
- sibirische
sibirische
33,307 corpus weight
- Siedepunkt
Siedepunkt
33,306 corpus weight
- singing
singing
33,305 corpus weight
- skandalöse
skandalöse
33,304 corpus weight
- sociale
sociale
33,301 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „singing“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | singing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „singing“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
singing is uncommon German at frequency #66,696 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs sing".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for singing, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is singing, spelled S-I-N-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs sing
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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