Präteritum

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Präteritum is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pʁɛˈteːʁitʊm]. Corpus data places it at rank #59,092 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Präteritum in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 Präteritum, spelled P-R-Ä-T-E-R-I-T-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.