rügte
[ˈʁyːktə]
The verdict
“rügte” is uncommon German (frequency #88,236 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,236
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs rügen
Corpus desk
Index DE-rugte · rügte · German
rügte · rank #88,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,236
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Räucherstäbch…
Nearest frequency peer: Räucherstäbchen (-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 „rügte“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- runzeln
runzeln
11,768 corpus weight
- Räucherstäb…
Räucherstäbchen
11,766 corpus weight
- rügte
rügte
11,765 corpus weight
- Saaten
Saaten
11,764 corpus weight
- Sandsteine
Sandsteine
11,763 corpus weight
- Saxophonist
Saxophonist
11,762 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „rügte“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rügte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʁyːktə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „rügte“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
rügte is uncommon German at frequency #88,236 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʁyːktə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for rügte in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 rügte, spelled R-Ü-G-T-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs rügen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs rügen
- 33. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs rügen
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs rügen
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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