played
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The verdict
“played” is uncommon German (frequency #53,986 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,986
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs play
Corpus desk
Index DE-played · played · German
played · rank #53,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,986
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pogrom
Nearest frequency peer: Pogrom (+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 „played“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- PID
PID
46,020 corpus weight
- Pinakothek
Pinakothek
46,018 corpus weight
- played
played
46,015 corpus weight
- Pogrom
Pogrom
46,014 corpus weight
- Polak
Polak
46,012 corpus weight
- Poland
Poland
46,011 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „played“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | played |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „played“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
played is uncommon German at frequency #53,986 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs play".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for played, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is played, spelled P-L-A-Y-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs play
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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