diente
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,407
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
diente is anGermanunknown. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv von dienen Pronounced [ˈdiːntə]. It ranks #6,407 in German word frequency. Often confused with diet and diese.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diente |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ˈdiːntə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for diente is 6 letters long, classified as anunknown, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdiːntə]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,407 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for diente, with forms such as "ddiente", "deinte", and "dienet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "diet", "diese", "Dinge", 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 diente, spelled D-I-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv von dienen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv von dienen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddiente,deinte,dienet,diennte,dientte,dietne,dinete,idente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for diente
Misspelling Variants of "diente"
Frequency rank: #6,407 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our German index: