required
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The verdict
“required” is uncommon German (frequency #83,213 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,213
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs require
Corpus desk
Index DE-required · required · German
required · rank #83,213 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,213
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH repubblica
Nearest frequency peer: repubblica (-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 „required“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- reichere
reichere
16,795 corpus weight
- Rekordtief
Rekordtief
16,793 corpus weight
- Repliken
Repliken
16,791 corpus weight
- repubblica
repubblica
16,789 corpus weight
- required
required
16,788 corpus weight
- resistenten
resistenten
16,787 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „required“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | required |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „required“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
required is uncommon German at frequency #83,213 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs require".
required doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is required, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs require
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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