wag
[vaːk]
The verdict
“wag” is uncommon German (frequency #51,820 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,820
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wagen
Corpus desk
Index DE-wag · wag · German
wag · rank #51,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,820
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Waffenschein
Nearest frequency peer: Waffenschein (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “wag”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- vormerken
vormerken
48,184 corpus weight
- völkerrecht…
völkerrechtliche
48,183 corpus weight
- Waffenschein
Waffenschein
48,182 corpus weight
- wag
wag
48,181 corpus weight
- Wahlheimat
Wahlheimat
48,180 corpus weight
- Wahljahr
Wahljahr
48,179 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wag” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [vaːk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “wag” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
wag is uncommon German at frequency #51,820 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [vaːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wagen".
No misspelling variants are generated for wag in our index, 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 no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is wag, spelled W-A-G.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wagen
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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