stretch
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The verdict
“stretch” is uncommon German (frequency #55,748 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,748
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dehnbarkeit, Elastizität
Corpus desk
Index DE-stretch · stretch · German
stretch · rank #55,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,748
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sträubt
Nearest frequency peer: sträubt (+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 „stretch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- strack
strack
44,257 corpus weight
- Straffreihe…
Straffreiheit
44,256 corpus weight
- stretch
stretch
44,253 corpus weight
- sträubt
sträubt
44,252 corpus weight
- suchend
suchend
44,251 corpus weight
- summieren
summieren
44,250 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stretch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stretch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stretch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
stretch is uncommon German at frequency #55,748 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dehnbarkeit, Elastizität".
No misspelling variants are generated for stretch in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is stretch, spelled S-T-R-E-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Dehnbarkeit, Elastizität
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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