zwinker
[ˈt͡svɪŋkɐ]
The verdict
“zwinker” is uncommon German (frequency #57,608 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,608
- 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 zwinkern
Corpus desk
Index DE-zwinker · zwinker · German
zwinker · rank #57,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,608
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zwettl
Nearest frequency peer: Zwettl (-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 „zwinker“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zustimme
zustimme
42,397 corpus weight
- zuverlässig…
zuverlässiges
42,396 corpus weight
- Zwettl
Zwettl
42,394 corpus weight
- zwinker
zwinker
42,393 corpus weight
- Zwischenraum
Zwischenraum
42,392 corpus weight
- Äffchen
Äffchen
42,389 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zwinker“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zwinker |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt͡svɪŋkɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zwinker“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zwinker is uncommon German at frequency #57,608 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈt͡svɪŋkɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for zwinker in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is zwinker, spelled Z-W-I-N-K-E-R.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs zwinkern
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs zwinkern
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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