chose
[t͡ʃəʊz]
The verdict
“chose” is uncommon German (frequency #63,209 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,209
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs choose
Corpus desk
Index DE-chose · chose · German
chose · rank #63,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,209
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH chirurgisch
Nearest frequency peer: chirurgisch (-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 „chose“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Cessna
Cessna
36,795 corpus weight
- charismatis…
charismatisch
36,794 corpus weight
- chirurgisch
chirurgisch
36,793 corpus weight
- chose
chose
36,792 corpus weight
- Clifton
Clifton
36,791 corpus weight
- Cobalt
Cobalt
36,790 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „chose“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chose |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t͡ʃəʊz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „chose“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
chose is uncommon German at frequency #63,209 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [t͡ʃəʊz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs choose".
No misspelling variants are generated for chose in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is chose, spelled C-H-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs choose
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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