speiste

[ˈʃpaɪ̯stə]

/[ˈʃpaɪ̯stə]/ verb

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The verdict

“speiste” is uncommon German (frequency #78,559 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,559
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs speisen

Corpus desk

Index DE-speiste · speiste · German

speiste · rank #78,559 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,559
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Spenders

Nearest frequency peer: Spenders (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „speiste“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „speiste“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for speiste
PropertyValue
Headwordspeiste
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈʃpaɪ̯stə]
Letters7
Frequency rank#78,559
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „speiste“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).speistefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Spenders“ (#78,560), „Sonderpreise“ (#78,557), „sperrige“ (#78,561). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „speiste“ bei #78,559. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

speiste is uncommon German at frequency #78,559 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃpaɪ̯stə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for speiste, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is speiste, spelled S-P-E-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs speisen
  2. 2
    1. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs speisen
  3. 3
    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs speisen
  4. 4
    3. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs speisen

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "speiste"?
"speiste" is spelled S-P-E-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃpaɪ̯stə].
What does "speiste" mean?
As a verb, "speiste" means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs speisen
How do you pronounce "speiste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "speiste" is [ˈʃpaɪ̯stə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "speiste" come from?
"speiste" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "speiste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Sprosse#78,569scrollt#78,530Schöffe#78,528stopfte#78,590

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list