suchten
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,820
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
suchten is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs suchen Pronounced [ˈzuːxtn̩]. It ranks #7,820 in German word frequency. Often confused with Suiten and süchtig.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suchten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈzuːxtn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for suchten is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzuːxtn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,820 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for suchten, with forms such as "scuhten", "ssuchten", and "succhten". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Suiten", "süchtig", "Suche", 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 suchten, spelled S-U-C-H-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs suchen
- 23. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs suchen
- 31. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs suchen
- 43. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs suchen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: scuhten,ssuchten,succhten,suchetn,suchhten,suchtenn,suchtne,suchtten,sucthen,suhcten,uschten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for suchten
Misspelling Variants of "suchten"
Frequency rank: #7,820 in German
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