sprinten
[ˈʃpʁɪntn̩]
The verdict
“sprinten” is uncommon German (frequency #75,075 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,075
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - am Sprint teilnehmen, die Kurzstrecke laufen
Corpus desk
Index DE-sprinten · sprinten · German
sprinten · rank #75,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,075
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sportgerät
Nearest frequency peer: Sportgerät (-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 „sprinten“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Spieluhr
Spieluhr
24,929 corpus weight
- Spitzenverb…
Spitzenverbände
24,928 corpus weight
- Sportgerät
Sportgerät
24,927 corpus weight
- sprinten
sprinten
24,926 corpus weight
- spätabends
spätabends
24,924 corpus weight
- Staatsbürge…
Staatsbürgerin
24,923 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sprinten“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sprinten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃpʁɪntn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sprinten“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sprinten is uncommon German at frequency #75,075 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃpʁɪntn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sprinten doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is sprinten, spelled S-P-R-I-N-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1am Sprint teilnehmen, die Kurzstrecke laufen
- 2schnell laufen, wie beim Sprint
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sprinten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auf der langen Distanz zeigt sie Schwächen, sie kann eben besser sprinten.
Er sprintete in Richtung S-Bahn.
This word in other languages
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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