updated
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The verdict
“updated” is uncommon German (frequency #77,468 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,468
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs update
Corpus desk
Index DE-updated · updated · German
updated · rank #77,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,468
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH unwesentliche
Nearest frequency peer: unwesentliche (-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 „updated“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Untersuchun…
Untersuchungsmethoden
22,537 corpus weight
- unverständl…
unverständlichen
22,536 corpus weight
- unwesentlic…
unwesentliche
22,534 corpus weight
- updated
updated
22,533 corpus weight
- Urlaubsfotos
Urlaubsfotos
22,532 corpus weight
- Uroma
Uroma
22,531 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „updated“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | updated |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „updated“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
updated is uncommon German at frequency #77,468 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs update".
No misspelling variants are generated for updated in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 updated, spelled U-P-D-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs update
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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