stang
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The verdict
“stang” is uncommon German (frequency #89,611 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,611
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs sting
Corpus desk
Index DE-stang · stang · German
stang · rank #89,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,611
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stadtgespräch
Nearest frequency peer: Stadtgespräch (-3 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 „stang“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Spülbecken
Spülbecken
10,397 corpus weight
- squirting
squirting
10,396 corpus weight
- Stadtgesprä…
Stadtgespräch
10,393 corpus weight
- stang
stang
10,390 corpus weight
- Staubwolke
Staubwolke
10,386 corpus weight
- Steinhaufen
Steinhaufen
10,385 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stang“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stang |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stang“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
stang is uncommon German at frequency #89,611 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs sting".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for stang, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is stang, spelled S-T-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs sting
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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