knurrte
[ˈknʊʁtə]
The verdict
“knurrte” is uncommon German (frequency #74,778 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,778
- 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 knurren
Corpus desk
Index DE-knurrte · knurrte · German
knurrte · rank #74,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,778
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Klobrille
Nearest frequency peer: Klobrille (-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 „knurrte“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Klobrille
Klobrille
25,224 corpus weight
- knurrte
knurrte
25,223 corpus weight
- Knöcheln
Knöcheln
25,222 corpus weight
- Koje
Koje
25,221 corpus weight
- Kolumnisten
Kolumnisten
25,220 corpus weight
- kombinierter
kombinierter
25,219 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „knurrte“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knurrte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈknʊʁtə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „knurrte“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
knurrte is uncommon German at frequency #74,778 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈknʊʁtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
knurrte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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. The correct German form is knurrte, spelled K-N-U-R-R-T-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs knurren
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs knurren
- 33. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs knurren
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs knurren
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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