victims

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The verdict

“victims” is uncommon German (frequency #91,086 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,086
frequency rank, German
4,163
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs victim

Corpus desk

Index DE-victims · victims · German

victims · rank #91,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,086
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,163
  • PHOTO-FINISH Verödung

Nearest frequency peer: Verödung (-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 „victims“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „victims“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for victims
PropertyValue
Headwordvictims
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#91,086
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „victims“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.victimsfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Verödung“ (#91,085), „Videokonferenzen“ (#91,087), „verwirrender“ (#91,084). Unter 4,163 „V“-Lemmata liegt „victims“ bei #91,086. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

victims is uncommon German at frequency #91,086 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs victim".

victims doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is victims, spelled V-I-C-T-I-M-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs victim

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "victims"?
"victims" is spelled V-I-C-T-I-M-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "victims" mean?
As a noun, "victims" means: Plural des Substantivs victim
How do you pronounce "victims"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "victims", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

violent#91,091weither#91,136umkippt#91,019willing#91,153

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list