armed
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The verdict
“armed” is uncommon German (frequency #87,406 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,406
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs arm
Corpus desk
Index DE-armed · armed · German
armed · rank #87,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,406
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH aristotelisch…
Nearest frequency peer: aristotelischen (-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 „armed“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Arbitrage
Arbitrage
12,598 corpus weight
- aristotelis…
aristotelischen
12,596 corpus weight
- armed
armed
12,595 corpus weight
- Armreif
Armreif
12,594 corpus weight
- armseliger
armseliger
12,593 corpus weight
- Arschgeige
Arschgeige
12,592 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „armed“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armed |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „armed“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
armed is uncommon German at frequency #87,406 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs arm".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for armed, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is armed, spelled A-R-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs arm
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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