Streckung
[ˈʃtʁɛkʊŋ]
The verdict
“Streckung” is uncommon German (frequency #67,750 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,750
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Herstellung einer größeren Entfernung zwischen (Körper-)Teilen in einer, mehreren oder allen Dimensionen
Corpus desk
Index DE-streckung · Streckung · German
Streckung · rank #67,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,750
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sträflich
Nearest frequency peer: sträflich (+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 „Streckung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- straucheln
straucheln
32,253 corpus weight
- Streckung
Streckung
32,251 corpus weight
- sträflich
sträflich
32,250 corpus weight
- städtebauli…
städtebaulich
32,249 corpus weight
- subsidiär
subsidiär
32,248 corpus weight
- suchet
suchet
32,247 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Streckung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Streckung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʁɛkʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Streckung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Streckung is uncommon German at frequency #67,750 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtʁɛkʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Streckung, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Streckung, spelled S-T-R-E-C-K-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Herstellung einer größeren Entfernung zwischen (Körper-)Teilen in einer, mehreren oder allen Dimensionen
- 2Wachstumsphase bei Kindern, zum Beispiel eine zwischen dem 4. und 7. Lebensjahr
- 3Verteilung über einen längeren Zeitraum
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Streckung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Am Oberarme liegen nur wenige Muskeln, und die hauptsächlichsten sind nicht zur Bewegung dieses Knochens, sondern zur Beugung und Streckung des Vorderarmes im Ellenbogengelenke bestimmt.“
„Die Abbildungen, die die Form einer Figur invariant lassen, sind die Ähnlichkeitsabbildungen mit der zentrischen Streckung als ihrem wichtigsten Vertreter.“
Antonyms
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).