treibend
[ˈtʁaɪ̯bn̩t]
The verdict
“treibend” is uncommon German (frequency #85,953 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,953
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens des Verbs treiben
Corpus desk
Index DE-treibend · treibend · German
treibend · rank #85,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,953
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Travestie
Nearest frequency peer: Travestie (-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 „treibend“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- trains
trains
14,051 corpus weight
- Transferper…
Transferperiode
14,050 corpus weight
- Travestie
Travestie
14,049 corpus weight
- treibend
treibend
14,048 corpus weight
- Trennwände
Trennwände
14,047 corpus weight
- Trimester
Trimester
14,046 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „treibend“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | treibend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈtʁaɪ̯bn̩t] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „treibend“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
treibend is uncommon German at frequency #85,953 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈtʁaɪ̯bn̩t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens des Verbs treiben".
No misspelling variants are generated for treibend in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is treibend, spelled T-R-E-I-B-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens des Verbs treiben
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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