switches
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The verdict
“switches” is uncommon German (frequency #59,228 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,228
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs switch
Corpus desk
Index DE-switches · switches · German
switches · rank #59,228 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,228
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sweat
Nearest frequency peer: sweat (-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 „switches“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sucre
sucre
40,776 corpus weight
- Sudetenland
Sudetenland
40,775 corpus weight
- sweat
sweat
40,774 corpus weight
- switches
switches
40,773 corpus weight
- Tabubruch
Tabubruch
40,772 corpus weight
- Tagesmutter
Tagesmutter
40,771 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „switches“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | switches |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „switches“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
switches is uncommon German at frequency #59,228 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs switch".
No misspelling variants are generated for switches in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is switches, spelled S-W-I-T-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs switch
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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