divided
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The verdict
“divided” is uncommon German (frequency #86,369 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,369
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs divide
Corpus desk
Index DE-divided · divided · German
divided · rank #86,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,369
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Diskuswerfen
Nearest frequency peer: Diskuswerfen (-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 „divided“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- diensthaben…
diensthabenden
13,637 corpus weight
- diktatorisch
diktatorisch
13,636 corpus weight
- Diners
Diners
13,634 corpus weight
- Diskuswerfen
Diskuswerfen
13,633 corpus weight
- divided
divided
13,632 corpus weight
- DOD
DOD
13,631 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „divided“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divided |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „divided“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
divided is uncommon German at frequency #86,369 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs divide".
No misspelling variants are generated for divided in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is divided, spelled D-I-V-I-D-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs divide
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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