schwankte
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,904
in German word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
schwankte is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs schwanken Pronounced [ˈʃvaŋktə]. Often confused with schwänze and schwenkt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwankte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃvaŋktə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schwankte is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃvaŋktə]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,904 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 generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for schwankte, with forms such as "cshwankte", "scchwankte", and "schawnkte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "schwänze", "schwenkt", "Schwäne", 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 schwankte, spelled S-C-H-W-A-N-K-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 schwanken
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs schwanken
- 33. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs schwanken
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs schwanken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshwankte,scchwankte,schawnkte,schhwankte,schwaknte,schwanket,schwankkte,schwanktte,schwannkte,schwantke,schwnakte,schwwankte,scwhankte,shcwankte,sschwankte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for schwankte
Misspelling Variants of "schwankte"
Frequency rank: #44,904 in German
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Nearby German words
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