linked
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The verdict
“linked” is uncommon German (frequency #75,927 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,927
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs link
Corpus desk
Index DE-linked · linked · German
linked · rank #75,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,927
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Liften
Nearest frequency peer: Liften (-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 „linked“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Lieblingsbe…
Lieblingsbeschäftigung
24,078 corpus weight
- Lieblingsst…
Lieblingsstück
24,077 corpus weight
- Liften
Liften
24,075 corpus weight
- linked
linked
24,074 corpus weight
- lins
lins
24,073 corpus weight
- Listenpreis
Listenpreis
24,070 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „linked“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | linked |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „linked“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
linked is uncommon German at frequency #75,927 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs link".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for linked, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is linked, spelled L-I-N-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs link
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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