felt
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The verdict
“felt” is uncommon German (frequency #53,681 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,681
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs feel
Corpus desk
Index DE-felt · felt · German
felt · rank #53,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,681
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Feinschliff
Nearest frequency peer: Feinschliff (-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 „felt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- faules
faules
46,323 corpus weight
- fault
fault
46,322 corpus weight
- Feinschliff
Feinschliff
46,321 corpus weight
- felt
felt
46,320 corpus weight
- Festgeld
Festgeld
46,318 corpus weight
- fetzt
fetzt
46,317 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „felt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | felt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „felt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
felt is uncommon German at frequency #53,681 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs feel".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for felt, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is felt, spelled F-E-L-T.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs feel
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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