focht
[fɔxt]
The verdict
“focht” is uncommon German (frequency #76,782 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,782
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fechten
Corpus desk
Index DE-focht · focht · German
focht · rank #76,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,782
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Flügelschlag
Nearest frequency peer: Flügelschlag (-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 „focht“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Floridas
Floridas
23,222 corpus weight
- Floristen
Floristen
23,221 corpus weight
- Flügelschlag
Flügelschlag
23,220 corpus weight
- focht
focht
23,219 corpus weight
- fondation
fondation
23,217 corpus weight
- forcierten
forcierten
23,216 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „focht“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | focht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɔxt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „focht“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
focht is uncommon German at frequency #76,782 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [fɔxt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for focht in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is focht, spelled F-O-C-H-T.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fechten
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fechten
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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