forced
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The verdict
“forced” is uncommon German (frequency #83,968 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,968
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs force
Corpus desk
Index DE-forced · forced · German
forced · rank #83,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,968
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fontänen
Nearest frequency peer: Fontänen (-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 „forced“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Flugrouten
Flugrouten
16,037 corpus weight
- Folterungen
Folterungen
16,035 corpus weight
- Fontänen
Fontänen
16,034 corpus weight
- forced
forced
16,033 corpus weight
- Foundations
Foundations
16,032 corpus weight
- Freiern
Freiern
16,029 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „forced“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forced |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „forced“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
forced is uncommon German at frequency #83,968 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs force".
No generated misspelling entries exist for forced in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is forced, spelled F-O-R-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs force
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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