sink
[zɪŋk]
The verdict
“sink” is uncommon German (frequency #88,289 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,289
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sinken
Corpus desk
Index DE-sink · sink · German
sink · rank #88,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,289
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sinfonia
Nearest frequency peer: sinfonia (-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 „sink“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sievert
Sievert
11,715 corpus weight
- sinfonia
sinfonia
11,713 corpus weight
- sink
sink
11,712 corpus weight
- Sizilianer
Sizilianer
11,711 corpus weight
- skates
skates
11,710 corpus weight
- skizzierten
skizzierten
11,709 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sink“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sink |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [zɪŋk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sink“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sink is uncommon German at frequency #88,289 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [zɪŋk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sinken".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sink in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is sink, spelled S-I-N-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sinken
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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