wachten
[ˈvaxtn̩]
The verdict
“wachten” is uncommon German (frequency #74,163 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,163
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wachen
Corpus desk
Index DE-wachten · wachten · German
wachten · rank #74,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,163
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH völkischer
Nearest frequency peer: völkischer (-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 „wachten“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- vortragender
vortragender
25,841 corpus weight
- VVG
VVG
25,840 corpus weight
- völkischer
völkischer
25,839 corpus weight
- wachten
wachten
25,838 corpus weight
- Wahlpflicht
Wahlpflicht
25,837 corpus weight
- Wallstreet
Wallstreet
25,835 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wachten“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wachten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvaxtn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wachten“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wachten is uncommon German at frequency #74,163 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈvaxtn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wachten, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is wachten, spelled W-A-C-H-T-E-N.
Definition
- 11. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wachen
- 23. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wachen
- 31. Person Plural Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wachen
- 43. Person Plural Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wachen
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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