quälte
The verdict
“quälte” is an uncommon German word, ranked #54,825 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #54,825
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs quälen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quälte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkvɛːltə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quälte” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for quälte is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkvɛːltə]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,825 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for quälte in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 quälte, spelled Q-U-Ä-L-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs quälen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs quälen
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs quälen
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs quälen
Frequency rank: #54,825 in German
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Using “quälte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Q-U-Ä-L-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkvɛːltə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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