stunk

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The verdict

“stunk” is uncommon German (frequency #75,101 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,101
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs stink

Corpus desk

Index DE-stunk · stunk · German

stunk · rank #75,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,101
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Stulle

Nearest frequency peer: Stulle (-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 „stunk“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stunk“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for stunk
PropertyValue
Headwordstunk
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#75,101
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „stunk“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).stunkfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Stulle“ (#75,100), „Stümper“ (#75,102), „Symbolpolitik“ (#75,104). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „stunk“ bei #75,101. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

stunk is uncommon German at frequency #75,101 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs stink".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stunk, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is stunk, spelled S-T-U-N-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs stink

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stunk"?
"stunk" is spelled S-T-U-N-K. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "stunk" mean?
As a verb, "stunk" means: Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs stink
How do you pronounce "stunk"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "stunk", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list