hörten
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,457
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
hörten is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs hören Pronounced [ˈhøːɐ̯tn̩]. Often confused with hotel and Hosen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hörten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhøːɐ̯tn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for hörten is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhøːɐ̯tn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,457 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hörten, with forms such as "hhörten", "hröten", and "höretn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hotel", "Hosen", "Huren", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 hörten, spelled H-Ö-R-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs hören
- 21. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs hören
- 33. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs hören
- 43. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs hören
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhörten,hröten,höretn,hörrten,hörtenn,hörtne,hörtten,hötren,öhrten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hörten
Misspelling Variants of "hörten"
Frequency rank: #11,457 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter H in our German index: