spreng
[ʃpʁɛŋ]
The verdict
“spreng” is uncommon German (frequency #50,899 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,899
- 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 sprengen
Corpus desk
Index DE-spreng · spreng · German
spreng · rank #50,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,899
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH spotlight
Nearest frequency peer: spotlight (-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 „spreng“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- spinnst
spinnst
49,105 corpus weight
- spotlight
spotlight
49,103 corpus weight
- spreng
spreng
49,102 corpus weight
- Sprockhövel
Sprockhövel
49,101 corpus weight
- Spätschicht
Spätschicht
49,100 corpus weight
- Staatsdiener
Staatsdiener
49,099 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „spreng“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spreng |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃpʁɛŋ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „spreng“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
spreng is uncommon German at frequency #50,899 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃpʁɛŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sprengen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for spreng, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is spreng, spelled S-P-R-E-N-G.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sprengen
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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