alten
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#416
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
alten is anGermanadj. It means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs alt Pronounced [ˈaltn̩]. It ranks #416 in German word frequency. Often confused with Atem and arte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈaltn̩] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for alten is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaltn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #416 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for alten, with forms such as "aletn", "allten", and "altenn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Atem", "arte", "amen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is alten, spelled A-L-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 4Dativ Plural der starken Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 5Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 6Dativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 8Genitiv Singular Femininum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 9Dativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 10Genitiv Singular Neutrum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 11Dativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 12Plural der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 13Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 14Dativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 15Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 16Genitiv Singular Femininum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 17Dativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 18Genitiv Singular Neutrum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 19Dativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs alt
- 20Plural der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs alt
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aletn,allten,altenn,altne,altten,atlen,laten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alten
Misspelling Variants of "alten"
Frequency rank: #416 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our German index: