deckten
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,305
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
deckten is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs decken Pronounced [ˈdɛktn̩]. Often confused with Denken and dicken.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deckten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdɛktn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for deckten is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdɛktn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,305 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for deckten, with forms such as "dcekten", "ddeckten", and "decckten". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Denken", "dicken", "deuten", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 deckten, spelled D-E-C-K-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs decken
- 23. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs decken
- 31. Person Plural Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs decken
- 43. Person Plural Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs decken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dcekten,ddeckten,decckten,decketn,deckkten,decktenn,decktne,decktten,dectken,dekcten,edckten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for deckten
Misspelling Variants of "deckten"
Frequency rank: #47,305 in German
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Nearby German words
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