Slick
[slɪk]
The verdict
“Slick” is uncommon German (frequency #74,013 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,013
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - profilloser Reifen
Corpus desk
Index DE-slick · Slick · German
Slick · rank #74,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,013
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sklavenarbeit
Nearest frequency peer: Sklavenarbeit (-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 „Slick“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sinnliches
sinnliches
25,993 corpus weight
- skating
skating
25,992 corpus weight
- skies
skies
25,991 corpus weight
- Sklavenarbe…
Sklavenarbeit
25,990 corpus weight
- Slick
Slick
25,988 corpus weight
- Sonderfälle
Sonderfälle
25,982 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Slick“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Slick |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [slɪk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Slick“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Slick is uncommon German at frequency #74,013 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [slɪk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "profilloser Reifen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Slick, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Slick, spelled S-L-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1profilloser Reifen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Slick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Denn die Kombination aus Reifen, die gefahren werden, bis sie Slicks sind, und Straßen und Pisten, die selbst Reifen mit groben Stollen schnell zu Slicks machen, bescheren den Reifenflickern jede Menge Kundschaft.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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