squirting
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The verdict
“squirting” is uncommon German (frequency #89,605 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,605
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs squirt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | squirting |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “squirting” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
squirting is uncommon German at frequency #89,605 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs squirt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for squirting, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is squirting, spelled S-Q-U-I-R-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs squirt
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 “squirting”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-Q-U-I-R-T-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.