died
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The verdict
“died” is uncommon German (frequency #76,668 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,668
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs die
Corpus desk
Index DE-died · died · German
died · rank #76,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,668
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dhaka
Nearest frequency peer: Dhaka (-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 „died“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- demonstrier…
demonstrierenden
23,337 corpus weight
- Dependance
Dependance
23,336 corpus weight
- detailreich
detailreich
23,335 corpus weight
- Dhaka
Dhaka
23,334 corpus weight
- died
died
23,333 corpus weight
- Differenzie…
Differenzierungen
23,330 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „died“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | died |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „died“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
died is uncommon German at frequency #76,668 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs die".
died has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is died, spelled D-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs die
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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