stink
[ʃtɪŋk]
The verdict
“stink” is uncommon German (frequency #83,346 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,346
- 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 stinken
Corpus desk
Index DE-stink · stink · German
stink · rank #83,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,346
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stimmenfang
Nearest frequency peer: Stimmenfang (-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 „stink“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- steuerlicher
steuerlicher
16,658 corpus weight
- Stimmenfang
Stimmenfang
16,656 corpus weight
- stink
stink
16,655 corpus weight
- Stipendiums
Stipendiums
16,654 corpus weight
- stitch
stitch
16,653 corpus weight
- Stockerau
Stockerau
16,652 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stink“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stink |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃtɪŋk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stink“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
stink is uncommon German at frequency #83,346 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃtɪŋk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stinken".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stink in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 stink, spelled S-T-I-N-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stinken
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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