smiles
[smaɪlz]
The verdict
“smiles” is uncommon German (frequency #89,582 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,582
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs smile
Corpus desk
Index DE-smiles · smiles · German
smiles · rank #89,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,582
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Skeletts
Nearest frequency peer: Skeletts (-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 „smiles“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sinfonischen
sinfonischen
10,424 corpus weight
- singender
singender
10,423 corpus weight
- sinnieren
sinnieren
10,422 corpus weight
- Skeletts
Skeletts
10,421 corpus weight
- smiles
smiles
10,419 corpus weight
- sock
sock
10,417 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „smiles“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smiles |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [smaɪlz] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „smiles“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
smiles is uncommon German at frequency #89,582 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [smaɪlz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs smile".
smiles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is smiles, spelled S-M-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs smile
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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