curved
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The verdict
“curved” is uncommon German (frequency #83,824 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,824
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs curve
Corpus desk
Index DE-curved · curved · German
curved · rank #83,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,824
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cub
Nearest frequency peer: cub (-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 „curved“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Croatia
Croatia
16,180 corpus weight
- crocodile
crocodile
16,179 corpus weight
- cub
cub
16,178 corpus weight
- curved
curved
16,177 corpus weight
- Cyprian
Cyprian
16,176 corpus weight
- dafuq
dafuq
16,175 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „curved“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curved |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „curved“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
curved is uncommon German at frequency #83,824 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs curve".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for curved, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is curved, spelled C-U-R-V-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs curve
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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