warning
[ˈwɔːnɪŋ]
The verdict
“warning” is uncommon German (frequency #59,327 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,327
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs warn
Corpus desk
Index DE-warning · warning · German
warning · rank #59,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,327
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wasserglas
Nearest frequency peer: Wasserglas (+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 „warning“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wahllokalen
Wahllokalen
40,678 corpus weight
- Wahlplakaten
Wahlplakaten
40,677 corpus weight
- warning
warning
40,674 corpus weight
- Wasserglas
Wasserglas
40,673 corpus weight
- Wasserschei…
Wasserscheide
40,672 corpus weight
- Wednesday
Wednesday
40,671 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „warning“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | warning |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈwɔːnɪŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „warning“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
warning is uncommon German at frequency #59,327 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈwɔːnɪŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs warn".
No misspelling variants are generated for warning in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is warning, spelled W-A-R-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs warn
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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