spelling
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The verdict
“spelling” is uncommon German (frequency #99,105 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,105
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs spell
Corpus desk
Index DE-spelling · spelling · German
spelling · rank #99,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,105
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH speien
Nearest frequency peer: speien (-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 „spelling“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sparprogramm
Sparprogramm
898 corpus weight
- speien
speien
897 corpus weight
- spelling
spelling
896 corpus weight
- spindeln
spindeln
894 corpus weight
- spiralförmig
spiralförmig
893 corpus weight
- splitting
splitting
890 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „spelling“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „spelling“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
spelling is uncommon German at frequency #99,105 among 8,027 “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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