war dabei
The verdict
“war dabei” 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
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 1. Person Singular Präteritum Indikativ der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs dabei sein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | war dabei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [vaːɐ̯ daˈbaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “war dabei” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for war dabei is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vaːɐ̯ daˈbaɪ̯]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for war dabei 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 war dabei, spelled W-A-R- -D-A-B-E-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Präteritum Indikativ der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs dabei sein
- 23. Person Singular Präteritum Indikativ der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs dabei sein
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Using “war dabei”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-A-R- -D-A-B-E-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [vaːɐ̯ daˈbaɪ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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