merkte
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,596
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
merkte is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs merken Pronounced [ˈmɛʁktə]. It ranks #8,596 in German word frequency. Often confused with merle and meute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merkte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈmɛʁktə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for merkte is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmɛʁktə]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,596 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.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 merkte, with forms such as "emrkte", "mekrte", and "merket". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "merle", "meute", "Mette", 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 merkte, spelled M-E-R-K-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs merken
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs merken
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs merken
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs merken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emrkte,mekrte,merket,merkkte,merktte,merrkte,mertke,mmerkte,mrekte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for merkte
Misspelling Variants of "merkte"
Frequency rank: #8,596 in German
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Nearby German words
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