slime
[ˈslaɪ̯mə]
The verdict
“slime” is uncommon German (frequency #77,330 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,330
- 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 slimen
Corpus desk
Index DE-slime · slime · German
slime · rank #77,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,330
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Skigebieten
Nearest frequency peer: Skigebieten (-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 „slime“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sisyphos
Sisyphos
22,676 corpus weight
- Sittlichkeit
Sittlichkeit
22,675 corpus weight
- Siziliens
Siziliens
22,673 corpus weight
- Skigebieten
Skigebieten
22,672 corpus weight
- slime
slime
22,671 corpus weight
- soy
soy
22,666 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „slime“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slime |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈslaɪ̯mə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „slime“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
slime is uncommon German at frequency #77,330 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈslaɪ̯mə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for slime in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is slime, spelled S-L-I-M-E.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs slimen
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs slimen
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs slimen
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs slimen
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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