tension
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The verdict
“tension” is uncommon German (frequency #97,811 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,811
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einen Gegenstand unter Spannung setzen; spannen, auf Zug beanspruchen
Corpus desk
Index DE-tension · tension · German
tension · rank #97,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,811
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Telekinese
Nearest frequency peer: Telekinese (-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 „tension“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Teilzeitbes…
Teilzeitbeschäftigung
2,192 corpus weight
- Telekinese
Telekinese
2,191 corpus weight
- tension
tension
2,190 corpus weight
- Testperson
Testperson
2,189 corpus weight
- Testzwecken
Testzwecken
2,188 corpus weight
- Themenspekt…
Themenspektrum
2,186 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tension“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tension |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tension“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tension is uncommon German at frequency #97,811 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "einen Gegenstand unter Spannung setzen; spannen, auf Zug beanspruchen".
Zero misspellings are on record for tension in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is tension, spelled T-E-N-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1einen Gegenstand unter Spannung setzen; spannen, auf Zug beanspruchen
Synonyms
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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