united
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The verdict
“united” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,115. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,115
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs unite
Corpus desk
Index DE-united · united · German
united · rank #6,115 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,115
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Urkunde
Nearest frequency peer: Urkunde (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “united”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tauschen
tauschen
93,890 corpus weight
- Telefonnumm…
Telefonnummer
93,889 corpus weight
- united
united
93,886 corpus weight
- Urkunde
Urkunde
93,885 corpus weight
- verdanken
verdanken
93,884 corpus weight
- vereinbart
vereinbart
93,883 corpus weight
What this shows “united” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | united |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “united” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around united (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,115 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs unite".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for united, with forms such as "nuited", "uinted", and "unietd". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "unter", "unten", "video", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is united, spelled U-N-I-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs unite
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuited
- uinted
- unietd
- unitde
- unitedd
- unitted
- unnited
- untied
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of united - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "united", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).