missed
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The verdict
“missed” is uncommon German (frequency #97,400 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,400
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs miss
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | missed |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “missed” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
missed is uncommon German at frequency #97,400 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs miss".
Zero misspellings are on record for missed in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is missed, spelled M-I-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs miss
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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Using “missed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-I-S-S-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.