skating
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The verdict
“skating” is uncommon German (frequency #74,009 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,009
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs skate
Corpus desk
Index DE-skating · skating · German
skating · rank #74,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,009
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sinnliches
Nearest frequency peer: sinnliches (-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 „skating“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sicherheits…
Sicherheitszone
25,996 corpus weight
- Signifikanz
Signifikanz
25,995 corpus weight
- sinnliches
sinnliches
25,993 corpus weight
- skating
skating
25,992 corpus weight
- skies
skies
25,991 corpus weight
- Sklavenarbe…
Sklavenarbeit
25,990 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „skating“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skating |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „skating“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
skating is uncommon German at frequency #74,009 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs skate".
No misspelling variants are generated for skating in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is skating, spelled S-K-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs skate
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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