wrecking
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The verdict
“wrecking” is uncommon German (frequency #88,543 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,543
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs wreck
Corpus desk
Index DE-wrecking · wrecking · German
wrecking · rank #88,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,543
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wortkarg
Nearest frequency peer: wortkarg (-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 „wrecking“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wohlgefühl
Wohlgefühl
11,461 corpus weight
- wortkarg
wortkarg
11,459 corpus weight
- wrecking
wrecking
11,458 corpus weight
- wuchert
wuchert
11,457 corpus weight
- Wurzelbehan…
Wurzelbehandlung
11,456 corpus weight
- Wählerverze…
Wählerverzeichnis
11,455 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wrecking“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wrecking |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wrecking“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wrecking is uncommon German at frequency #88,543 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs wreck".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wrecking, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is wrecking, spelled W-R-E-C-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs wreck
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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