zwing
[t͡svɪŋ]
The verdict
“zwing” is uncommon German (frequency #63,058 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,058
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs zwingen
Corpus desk
Index DE-zwing · zwing · German
zwing · rank #63,058 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,058
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zwiesel
Nearest frequency peer: Zwiesel (-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 „zwing“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Zweiteiler
Zweiteiler
36,946 corpus weight
- zweiwöchigen
zweiwöchigen
36,945 corpus weight
- Zwiesel
Zwiesel
36,944 corpus weight
- zwing
zwing
36,943 corpus weight
- zähneknirsc…
zähneknirschend
36,942 corpus weight
- Zülpich
Zülpich
36,941 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zwing“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zwing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t͡svɪŋ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zwing“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zwing is uncommon German at frequency #63,058 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [t͡svɪŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs zwingen".
zwing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 zwing, spelled Z-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs zwingen
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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