types
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The verdict
“types” is uncommon German (frequency #59,255 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,255
- 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 type
Corpus desk
Index DE-types · types · German
types · rank #59,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,255
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Trossingen
Nearest frequency peer: Trossingen (-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 „types“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Transsexuel…
Transsexuellen
40,749 corpus weight
- tricky
tricky
40,748 corpus weight
- Trossingen
Trossingen
40,747 corpus weight
- types
types
40,746 corpus weight
- Törtchen
Törtchen
40,745 corpus weight
- tüchtigen
tüchtigen
40,744 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „types“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | types |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „types“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
types is uncommon German at frequency #59,255 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 type".
Zero misspellings are on record for types in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 types, spelled T-Y-P-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs type
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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