spell
[ʃpɛl]
The verdict
“spell” is uncommon German (frequency #87,084 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,084
- 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 spellen
Corpus desk
Index DE-spell · spell · German
spell · rank #87,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,084
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Speisung
Nearest frequency peer: Speisung (-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 „spell“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sozialbetrug
Sozialbetrug
12,921 corpus weight
- Speiche
Speiche
12,919 corpus weight
- Speisung
Speisung
12,918 corpus weight
- spell
spell
12,917 corpus weight
- Spielorte
Spielorte
12,916 corpus weight
- spornt
spornt
12,914 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „spell“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spell |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃpɛl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „spell“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
spell is uncommon German at frequency #87,084 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃpɛl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spellen".
spell doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is spell, spelled S-P-E-L-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spellen
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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