zwingst
[t͡svɪŋst]
The verdict
“zwingst” is uncommon German (frequency #88,581 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,581
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs zwingen
Corpus desk
Index DE-zwingst · zwingst · German
zwingst · rank #88,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,581
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zweistöckigen
Nearest frequency peer: zweistöckigen (-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 „zwingst“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Zwangsheirat
Zwangsheirat
11,423 corpus weight
- Zweikämpfen
Zweikämpfen
11,422 corpus weight
- zweistöckig…
zweistöckigen
11,421 corpus weight
- zwingst
zwingst
11,420 corpus weight
- zwinkert
zwinkert
11,419 corpus weight
- Zündschloss
Zündschloss
11,417 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zwingst“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zwingst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t͡svɪŋst] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zwingst“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zwingst is uncommon German at frequency #88,581 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [t͡svɪŋst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs zwingen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zwingst, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is zwingst, spelled Z-W-I-N-G-S-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ 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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