Twink
[tvɪŋk]
The verdict
“Twink” is uncommon German (frequency #62,935 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,935
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jung aussehender, schlanker Mann mit höchstens geringfügiger Körper- und Gesichtsbehaarung und wenig typischen Männlichkeitseigenschaften
Corpus desk
Index DE-twink · Twink · German
Twink · rank #62,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,935
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Tumorzellen
Nearest frequency peer: Tumorzellen (-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 „Twink“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Tuck
Tuck
37,069 corpus weight
- Tudor
Tudor
37,068 corpus weight
- Tumorzellen
Tumorzellen
37,067 corpus weight
- Twink
Twink
37,066 corpus weight
- Umdrehung
Umdrehung
37,064 corpus weight
- Umhängen
Umhängen
37,063 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Twink“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Twink |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tvɪŋk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Twink“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Twink is uncommon German at frequency #62,935 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [tvɪŋk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Twink in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Twink, spelled T-W-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1jung aussehender, schlanker Mann mit höchstens geringfügiger Körper- und Gesichtsbehaarung und wenig typischen Männlichkeitseigenschaften
- 2zusätzlicher Spielercharakter in Computer-Rollenspielen neben der Hauptfigur desselben Spielers
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Twink appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich bin ein großartiger Twink mit originellem, aber unübertrefflichem Style.“
„Twinks sind attraktive Milchbubis zwischen achtzehn und fünfundzwanzig, Hunks sind attraktive Männer mit Muskeln und Werkzeugkoffer und Bears attraktive Männer mit Fell und Plauze, das war’s auch schon.“
This word in other languages
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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