waiting
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The verdict
“waiting” is uncommon German (frequency #50,186 among 38,697 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,186
- frequency rank, German
- 38,697
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs wait
Corpus desk
Index DE-waiting · waiting · German
waiting · rank #50,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,186
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 38,697
- PHOTO-FINISH wahrscheinlic…
Nearest frequency peer: wahrscheinliche (-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 “waiting”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wahlbezirke
Wahlbezirke
49,818 corpus weight
- Wahlkabine
Wahlkabine
49,817 corpus weight
- wahrscheinl…
wahrscheinliche
49,816 corpus weight
- waiting
waiting
49,815 corpus weight
- Wasserfläche
Wasserfläche
49,814 corpus weight
- Weberei
Weberei
49,812 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “waiting” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waiting |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “waiting” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
waiting is uncommon German at frequency #50,186 among 38,697 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs wait".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for waiting, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is waiting, spelled W-A-I-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs wait
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.