continued

/[kənˈtɪnjuːd]/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#88,771

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

continued is aGermanverb. It means: Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs continue Pronounced [kənˈtɪnjuːd].

Key facts for continued
PropertyValue
Headwordcontinued
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[kənˈtɪnjuːd]
Letters9
Frequency rank#88,771
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of continued in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for continued is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kənˈtɪnjuːd]. Corpus data places it at rank #88,771 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs continue".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for continued in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 continued, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs continue

Frequency rank: #88,771 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "continued"?
"continued" is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-E-D. The IPA pronunciation is [kənˈtɪnjuːd].
What does "continued" mean?
As a verb, "continued" means: Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs continue
How do you pronounce "continued"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "continued" is [kənˈtɪnjuːd]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "continued" come from?
"continued" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.