streak
[striːk]
The verdict
“streak” is uncommon German (frequency #97,767 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,767
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit Streifen versehen (sein), gestreift (sein) [durchzogen; verschmiert]
Corpus desk
Index DE-streak · streak · German
streak · rank #97,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,767
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Streichinstru…
Nearest frequency peer: Streichinstrumente (+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 „streak“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- strafverset…
strafversetzt
2,239 corpus weight
- streak
streak
2,234 corpus weight
- Streichinst…
Streichinstrumente
2,233 corpus weight
- Streichquar…
Streichquartette
2,232 corpus weight
- Stromspeich…
Stromspeicher
2,231 corpus weight
- Strontium
Strontium
2,230 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „streak“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | streak |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [striːk] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „streak“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
streak is uncommon German at frequency #97,767 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [striːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for streak, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 streak, spelled S-T-R-E-A-K.
Definition
- 1mit Streifen versehen (sein), gestreift (sein) [durchzogen; verschmiert]
- 2zucken
- 3flitzen, nackt herumlaufen
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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