starting
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The verdict
“starting” is uncommon German (frequency #50,903 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,903
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs start
Corpus desk
Index DE-starting · starting · German
starting · rank #50,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,903
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Staatsdiener
Nearest frequency peer: Staatsdiener (-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 „starting“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sprockhövel
Sprockhövel
49,101 corpus weight
- Spätschicht
Spätschicht
49,100 corpus weight
- Staatsdiener
Staatsdiener
49,099 corpus weight
- starting
starting
49,098 corpus weight
- Statussymbol
Statussymbol
49,097 corpus weight
- steigerten
steigerten
49,096 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „starting“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | starting |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „starting“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
starting is uncommon German at frequency #50,903 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs start".
No generated misspelling entries exist for starting in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is starting, spelled S-T-A-R-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs start
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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