painted
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The verdict
“painted” is uncommon German (frequency #83,136 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,136
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs paint
Corpus desk
Index DE-painted · painted · German
painted · rank #83,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,136
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Ostgebiete
Nearest frequency peer: Ostgebiete (-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 „painted“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Osloer
Osloer
16,869 corpus weight
- Osmose
Osmose
16,868 corpus weight
- Osternacht
Osternacht
16,867 corpus weight
- Ostgebiete
Ostgebiete
16,866 corpus weight
- painted
painted
16,865 corpus weight
- Pannonien
Pannonien
16,863 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „painted“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | painted |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „painted“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
painted is uncommon German at frequency #83,136 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs paint".
painted has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is painted, spelled P-A-I-N-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs paint
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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