pulled
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The verdict
“pulled” is uncommon German (frequency #84,439 among 49,534 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,439
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs pull
Corpus desk
Index DE-pulled · pulled · German
pulled · rank #84,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,439
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 49,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Puigdemont
Nearest frequency peer: Puigdemont (-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 “pulled”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Präsidenten…
Präsidentenpalast
15,566 corpus weight
- Präsidentsc…
Präsidentschaftswahlkampf
15,565 corpus weight
- Puigdemont
Puigdemont
15,563 corpus weight
- pulled
pulled
15,562 corpus weight
- Quadratzent…
Quadratzentimeter
15,561 corpus weight
- radikalsten
radikalsten
15,559 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pulled” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pulled |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pulled” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pulled is uncommon German at frequency #84,439 among 49,534 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs pull".
No misspelling variants are generated for pulled in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is pulled, spelled P-U-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs pull
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 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.