sagte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#311
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sagte is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs sagen Pronounced [ˈzaːktə]. It ranks #311 in German word frequency. Often confused with Sat and ste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sagte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈzaːktə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sagte is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzaːktə]. Corpus data places it at rank #311 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.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 sagte, with forms such as "asgte", "saget", and "saggte". 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, "Sat", "ste", "Satz", 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 sagte, spelled S-A-G-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 sagen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs sagen
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Aktiv Präteritum des Verbs sagen
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Aktiv Präteritum des Verbs sagen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asgte,saget,saggte,sagtte,satge,sgate,ssagte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sagte
Misspelling Variants of "sagte"
Frequency rank: #311 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter S in our German index: