prepared
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The verdict
“prepared” is uncommon German (frequency #90,746 among 49,534 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,746
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs prepare
Corpus desk
Index DE-prepared · prepared · German
prepared · rank #90,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,746
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 49,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Praxissemester
Nearest frequency peer: Praxissemester (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “prepared”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Prague
Prague
9,258 corpus weight
- prahl
prahl
9,257 corpus weight
- Praxissemes…
Praxissemester
9,256 corpus weight
- prepared
prepared
9,255 corpus weight
- primitives
primitives
9,254 corpus weight
- Privatgrund…
Privatgrundstück
9,253 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “prepared” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prepared |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prepared” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
prepared is uncommon German at frequency #90,746 among 49,534 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs prepare".
No misspelling variants are generated for prepared in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is prepared, spelled P-R-E-P-A-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs prepare
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.