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
- Strohballen
Strohballen
24,904 corpus weight
- Stulle
Stulle
24,901 corpus weight
- stunk
stunk
24,900 corpus weight
- Stümper
Stümper
24,899 corpus weight
- Symbolpolit…
Symbolpolitik
24,897 corpus weight
- systemischer
systemischer
24,896 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stunk“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stunk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stunk“ im Deutschen
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
- 1Partizip 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.
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