saturated
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The verdict
“saturated” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs saturate
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saturated |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “saturated” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for saturated is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs saturate".
saturated doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is saturated, spelled S-A-T-U-R-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs saturate
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “saturated”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-A-T-U-R-A-T-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.