stufte
[ˈʃtuːftə]
The verdict
“stufte” is uncommon German (frequency #61,969 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,969
- 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 stufen
Corpus desk
Index DE-stufte · stufte · German
stufte · rank #61,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,969
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Studienanfäng…
Nearest frequency peer: Studienanfänger (-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 „stufte“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- strenges
strenges
38,036 corpus weight
- stroke
stroke
38,035 corpus weight
- Stromversor…
Stromversorger
38,034 corpus weight
- Studienanfä…
Studienanfänger
38,033 corpus weight
- stufte
stufte
38,032 corpus weight
- Stützung
Stützung
38,030 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stufte“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stufte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtuːftə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stufte“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
stufte is uncommon German at frequency #61,969 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃtuːftə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for stufte in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is stufte, spelled S-T-U-F-T-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs stufen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs stufen
- 33. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs stufen
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs stufen
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.
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