änderten
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,963
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
änderten is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs ändern Pronounced [ˈɛndɐtn̩]. Often confused with anmerken and andeuten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | änderten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈɛndɐtn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for änderten is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɛndɐtn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,963 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for änderten, with forms such as "näderten", "ädnerten", and "ändderten". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "anmerken", "andeuten", "andeutet", 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 änderten, spelled Ä-N-D-E-R-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs ändern
- 21. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs ändern
- 33. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs ändern
- 43. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs ändern
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: näderten,ädnerten,ändderten,änderetn,änderrten,ändertenn,ändertne,ändertten,ändetren,ändreten,änedrten,ännderten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for änderten
Misspelling Variants of "änderten"
Frequency rank: #28,963 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter Ä in our German index: