halte dafür
The verdict
“halte dafür” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dafürhalten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | halte dafür |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌhaltə daˈfyːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “halte dafür” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for halte dafür is 11 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌhaltə daˈfyːɐ̯]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for halte dafür in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 halte dafür, spelled H-A-L-T-E- -D-A-F-Ü-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dafürhalten
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs dafürhalten
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs dafürhalten
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs dafürhalten
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Using “halte dafür”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-L-T-E- -D-A-F-Ü-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌhaltə daˈfyːɐ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby German words
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