[nextaccountic]

Isn't giving this word a token something deeply wasteful? When some more common things are multiple tokens.

Indeed, how do they deal with Chinese? Are some ideograms multiple tokens?

[mudkipdev]

It simply means the tokenizer's training corpus may have included a massive amount of German literature or accidentally oversampled a web page where that word was frequently repeated. Look up "glitch tokens" to learn more.