zim
[ziːm]
The verdict
“zim” is uncommon German (frequency #74,217 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,217
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Dual des Substantivs zima
Corpus desk
Index DE-zim · zim · German
zim · rank #74,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,217
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zigeunerin
Nearest frequency peer: Zigeunerin (-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 „zim“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zermürbt
zermürbt
25,787 corpus weight
- zerstreute
zerstreute
25,786 corpus weight
- Zigeunerin
Zigeunerin
25,785 corpus weight
- zim
zim
25,784 corpus weight
- zischte
zischte
25,783 corpus weight
- Zoologen
Zoologen
25,782 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zim“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zim |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ziːm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #74,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zim“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zim is uncommon German at frequency #74,217 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ziːm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for zim in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is zim, spelled Z-I-M.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Dual des Substantivs zima
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs zima
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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