turtles
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The verdict
“turtles” is uncommon German (frequency #54,158 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,158
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs turtle
Corpus desk
Index DE-turtles · turtles · German
turtles · rank #54,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,158
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH turismo
Nearest frequency peer: turismo (-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 „turtles“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Treppenstuf…
Treppenstufen
45,848 corpus weight
- Trials
Trials
45,847 corpus weight
- Trolley
Trolley
45,846 corpus weight
- turismo
turismo
45,844 corpus weight
- turtles
turtles
45,843 corpus weight
- umgab
umgab
45,839 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „turtles“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | turtles |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „turtles“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
turtles is uncommon German at frequency #54,158 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs turtle".
Zero misspellings are on record for turtles in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 turtles, spelled T-U-R-T-L-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs turtle
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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