sollte
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#163
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sollte is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs sollen Pronounced [ˈzɔltə]. It ranks #163 in German word frequency. Often confused with sorte and sorgte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sollte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈzɔltə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sollte is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzɔltə]. Corpus data places it at rank #163 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 sollte, with forms such as "osllte", "slolte", and "sollet". 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, "sorte", "sorgte", "Spalte", 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 sollte, spelled S-O-L-L-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 sollen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs sollen
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs sollen
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs sollen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osllte,slolte,sollet,solltte,solte,soltle,ssollte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sollte
Misspelling Variants of "sollte"
Frequency rank: #163 in German
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Nearby German words
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