sleeping
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The verdict
“sleeping” is uncommon German (frequency #69,706 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,706
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs sleep
Corpus desk
Index DE-sleeping · sleeping · German
sleeping · rank #69,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,706
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Skilanglauf
Nearest frequency peer: Skilanglauf (-2 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 „sleeping“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- skeleton
skeleton
30,299 corpus weight
- Skilanglauf
Skilanglauf
30,297 corpus weight
- sleeping
sleeping
30,295 corpus weight
- Smyrna
Smyrna
30,293 corpus weight
- sobre
sobre
30,292 corpus weight
- Soforthilfe
Soforthilfe
30,291 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sleeping“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sleeping |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sleeping“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sleeping is uncommon German at frequency #69,706 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs sleep".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sleeping, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is sleeping, spelled S-L-E-E-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs sleep
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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