animated
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The verdict
“animated” is uncommon German (frequency #78,857 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,857
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs animate
Corpus desk
Index DE-animated · animated · German
animated · rank #78,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,857
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH angespuckt
Nearest frequency peer: angespuckt (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “animated”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- angemahnt
angemahnt
21,147 corpus weight
- angerempelt
angerempelt
21,146 corpus weight
- angespuckt
angespuckt
21,145 corpus weight
- animated
animated
21,144 corpus weight
- anmutigen
anmutigen
21,142 corpus weight
- ansammelt
ansammelt
21,141 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “animated” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | animated |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “animated” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
animated is uncommon German at frequency #78,857 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs animate".
animated doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is animated, spelled A-N-I-M-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs animate
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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