trolling
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The verdict
“trolling” is uncommon German (frequency #94,995 among 35,386 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,995
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs troll
Corpus desk
Index DE-trolling · trolling · German
trolling · rank #94,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,995
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 35,386
- PHOTO-FINISH triefend
Nearest frequency peer: triefend (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “trolling”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Traumdeutung
Traumdeutung
5,009 corpus weight
- triefend
triefend
5,007 corpus weight
- trolling
trolling
5,006 corpus weight
- Trotteln
Trotteln
5,005 corpus weight
- Tränendrüse
Tränendrüse
5,004 corpus weight
- träumenden
träumenden
5,003 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “trolling” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trolling |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trolling” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
trolling is uncommon German at frequency #94,995 among 35,386 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs troll".
No misspelling variants are generated for trolling in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 trolling, spelled T-R-O-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs troll
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.