vim
[vɪm]
The verdict
“vim” is uncommon German (frequency #66,841 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,841
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schwung, Schmiss
Corpus desk
Index DE-vim · vim · German
vim · rank #66,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,841
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vine
Nearest frequency peer: vine (+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 „vim“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Verteuerung
Verteuerung
33,164 corpus weight
- Videokameras
Videokameras
33,162 corpus weight
- vim
vim
33,160 corpus weight
- vine
vine
33,159 corpus weight
- vogelfrei
vogelfrei
33,158 corpus weight
- vollmundig
vollmundig
33,157 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „vim“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vim |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vɪm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „vim“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
vim is uncommon German at frequency #66,841 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [vɪm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schwung, Schmiss".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vim, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 vim, spelled V-I-M.
Definition
- 1Schwung, Schmiss
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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