survive
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The verdict
“survive” is uncommon German (frequency #79,800 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,800
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - überleben
Corpus desk
Index DE-survive · survive · German
survive · rank #79,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,800
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Susa
Nearest frequency peer: Susa (+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 „survive“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Störfaktor
Störfaktor
20,207 corpus weight
- survive
survive
20,201 corpus weight
- Susa
Susa
20,200 corpus weight
- Sutra
Sutra
20,199 corpus weight
- Swami
Swami
20,197 corpus weight
- swaps
swaps
20,196 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „survive“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | survive |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „survive“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
survive is uncommon German at frequency #79,800 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "überleben".
No misspelling variants are generated for survive in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 survive, spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1überleben
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how survive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She hopes that she survives the war.
This word in other languages
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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