knackte

[ˈknaktə]

/[ˈknaktə]/ verb

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The verdict

“knackte” is uncommon German (frequency #71,523 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#71,523
frequency rank, German
4,158
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs knacken

Corpus desk

Index DE-knackte · knackte · German

knackte · rank #71,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #71,523
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,158
  • PHOTO-FINISH knacks

Nearest frequency peer: knacks (-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 „knackte“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „knackte“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for knackte
PropertyValue
Headwordknackte
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈknaktə]
Letters7
Frequency rank#71,523
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „knackte“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).knacktefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „knacks“ (#71,522), „Knotenpunkte“ (#71,524), „Koeffizient“ (#71,525). Unter 4,158 „K“-Lemmata liegt „knackte“ bei #71,523. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

knackte is uncommon German at frequency #71,523 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈknaktə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for knackte in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 knackte, spelled K-N-A-C-K-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs knacken
  2. 2
    1. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs knacken
  3. 3
    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs knacken
  4. 4
    3. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs knacken

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "knackte"?
"knackte" is spelled K-N-A-C-K-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈknaktə].
What does "knackte" mean?
As a verb, "knackte" means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs knacken
How do you pronounce "knackte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "knackte" is [ˈknaktə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "knackte" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "knackte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Klinken#71,520Kesseln#71,511Kamille#71,501Kurkuma#71,550

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list