vědět
[ˈvjɛɟɛt]
The verdict
“vědět” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — von etwas Kenntnis haben, mit etwas bekannt sein; wissen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vědět |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvjɛɟɛt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vědět” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vědět is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvjɛɟɛt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "von etwas Kenntnis haben, mit etwas bekannt sein; wissen".
No misspelling variants are generated for vědět in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 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 vědět, spelled V-Ě-D-Ě-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1von etwas Kenntnis haben, mit etwas bekannt sein; wissen
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “vědět”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is V-Ě-D-Ě-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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