speaking
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The verdict
“speaking” is uncommon German (frequency #63,790 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,790
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs speak
Corpus desk
Index DE-speaking · speaking · German
speaking · rank #63,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,790
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Speisekarten
Nearest frequency peer: Speisekarten (+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 „speaking“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sozialstruk…
Sozialstruktur
36,215 corpus weight
- Sparkurs
Sparkurs
36,213 corpus weight
- speaking
speaking
36,211 corpus weight
- Speisekarten
Speisekarten
36,210 corpus weight
- spezialisie…
spezialisierter
36,209 corpus weight
- Sportverans…
Sportveranstaltung
36,206 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „speaking“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | speaking |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „speaking“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
speaking is uncommon German at frequency #63,790 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs speak".
speaking has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is speaking, spelled S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs speak
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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