sourcing
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The verdict
“sourcing” is uncommon German (frequency #88,306 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,306
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs source
Corpus desk
Index DE-sourcing · sourcing · German
sourcing · rank #88,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,306
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Soundkarte
Nearest frequency peer: Soundkarte (-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 „sourcing“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sondierungs…
Sondierungsgespräche
11,698 corpus weight
- Sontra
Sontra
11,697 corpus weight
- Soundkarte
Soundkarte
11,696 corpus weight
- sourcing
sourcing
11,695 corpus weight
- Soziopathen
Soziopathen
11,693 corpus weight
- Spassbremse
Spassbremse
11,692 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sourcing“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sourcing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sourcing“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sourcing is uncommon German at frequency #88,306 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs source".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sourcing, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is sourcing, spelled S-O-U-R-C-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs source
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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