spinn
[ʃpɪn]
The verdict
“spinn” is uncommon German (frequency #68,696 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,696
- 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 spinnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-spinn · spinn · German
spinn · rank #68,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,696
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spielothek
Nearest frequency peer: Spielothek (-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 „spinn“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Spieleentwi…
Spieleentwickler
31,308 corpus weight
- Spielothek
Spielothek
31,306 corpus weight
- spinn
spinn
31,305 corpus weight
- spitzte
spitzte
31,304 corpus weight
- Sportmedizin
Sportmedizin
31,303 corpus weight
- Spracherwerb
Spracherwerb
31,302 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „spinn“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spinn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃpɪn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „spinn“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
spinn is uncommon German at frequency #68,696 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃpɪn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spinnen".
spinn has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 spinn, spelled S-P-I-N-N.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spinnen
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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