twisted
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The verdict
“twisted” is uncommon German (frequency #81,046 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,046
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs twist
Corpus desk
Index DE-twisted · twisted · German
twisted · rank #81,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,046
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Tutte
Nearest frequency peer: Tutte (-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 „twisted“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Turnbeutel
Turnbeutel
18,958 corpus weight
- Turnerinnen
Turnerinnen
18,957 corpus weight
- Tutte
Tutte
18,956 corpus weight
- twisted
twisted
18,955 corpus weight
- tätlichen
tätlichen
18,954 corpus weight
- Tölpel
Tölpel
18,953 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „twisted“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | twisted |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „twisted“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
twisted is uncommon German at frequency #81,046 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs twist".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for twisted, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is twisted, spelled T-W-I-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs twist
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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