switching
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The verdict
“switching” is uncommon German (frequency #97,786 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,786
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs switch
Corpus desk
Index DE-switching · switching · German
switching · rank #97,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,786
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Symbolkraft
Nearest frequency peer: Symbolkraft (+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 „switching“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Surinam
Surinam
2,219 corpus weight
- surveys
surveys
2,218 corpus weight
- svoboda
svoboda
2,217 corpus weight
- switching
switching
2,215 corpus weight
- Symbolkraft
Symbolkraft
2,214 corpus weight
- syntaktische
syntaktische
2,211 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „switching“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | switching |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „switching“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
switching is uncommon German at frequency #97,786 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs switch".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for switching, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 switching, spelled S-W-I-T-C-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) 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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