wandte
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,131
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
wandte is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wenden Pronounced [ˈvantə]. It ranks #7,131 in German word frequency. Often confused with Want and Warte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wandte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvantə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wandte is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvantə]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,131 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for wandte, with forms such as "awndte", "wadnte", and "wanddte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Want", "Warte", "Wende", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 wandte, spelled W-A-N-D-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wenden
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wenden
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: awndte,wadnte,wanddte,wandet,wandtte,wanndte,wantde,wnadte,wwandte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for wandte
Misspelling Variants of "wandte"
Frequency rank: #7,131 in German
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Nearby German words
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