trekking
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The verdict
“trekking” is uncommon German (frequency #52,501 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,501
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs trek, dieses kommt über Afrikaans aus dem Niederländischen, wo es Wanderung bedeutet.
Corpus desk
Index DE-trekking · trekking · German
trekking · rank #52,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,501
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH traurigste
Nearest frequency peer: traurigste (-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 „trekking“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Trainingspl…
Trainingsplan
47,504 corpus weight
- traumatisie…
traumatisierte
47,502 corpus weight
- traurigste
traurigste
47,501 corpus weight
- trekking
trekking
47,500 corpus weight
- Tucson
Tucson
47,499 corpus weight
- Ukulele
Ukulele
47,497 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „trekking“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trekking |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „trekking“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
trekking is uncommon German at frequency #52,501 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs trek, dieses kommt über Afrikaans aus dem Niederländischen, wo es Wanderung bedeutet.".
trekking doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 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 trekking, spelled T-R-E-K-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs trek, dieses kommt über Afrikaans aus dem Niederländischen, wo es Wanderung bedeutet.
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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