debilitated

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The verdict

“debilitated” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs debilitate

Corpus desk

Index DE-debilitated · debilitated · German

debilitated · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for debilitated
PropertyValue
Headworddebilitated
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „debilitated“ im Deutschen

debilitatedschafft es nicht in die Top 100.000 des Deutschen: Zone für Fach-, Alt- oder Seltenwortschatz.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

debilitated is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs debilitate".

No generated misspelling entries exist for debilitated in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is debilitated, spelled D-E-B-I-L-I-T-A-T-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs debilitate

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "debilitated"?
"debilitated" is spelled D-E-B-I-L-I-T-A-T-E-D. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "debilitated" mean?
As a verb, "debilitated" means: Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs debilitate
How do you pronounce "debilitated"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "debilitated" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "debilitated" come from?
"debilitated" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list