ruhte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,599
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ruhte is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs ruhen Pronounced [ˈʁuːtə]. Often confused with Ruth and rule.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruhte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʁuːtə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ruhte is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁuːtə]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,599 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ruhte, with forms such as "rhute", "rruhte", and "ruhet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ruth", "rule", "Rute", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ruhte, spelled R-U-H-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 ruhen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs ruhen
- 33. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs ruhen
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs ruhen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rhute,rruhte,ruhet,ruhhte,ruhtte,ruthe,urhte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ruhte
Misspelling Variants of "ruhte"
Frequency rank: #36,599 in German
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Nearby German words
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