spelling
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The verdict
“spelling” is uncommon German (frequency #99,105 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,105
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs spell
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spelling |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spelling” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
spelling is uncommon German at frequency #99,105 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs spell".
No generated misspelling entries exist for spelling in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is spelling, spelled S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs spell
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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Using “spelling”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.