waren
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#115
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
waren is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Plural Präteritum Indikativ Aktiv des Verbs sein Pronounced [ˈvaːʁən]. It ranks #115 in German word frequency. Often confused with wen and Wien.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvaːʁən] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for waren is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvaːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #115 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for waren, with forms such as "awren", "waern", and "warenn". 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, "wen", "Wien", "warm", 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 waren, spelled W-A-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Plural Präteritum Indikativ Aktiv des Verbs sein
- 23. Person Plural Präteritum Indikativ Aktiv des Verbs sein
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: awren,waern,warenn,wraen,wwaren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for waren
Misspelling Variants of "waren"
Frequency rank: #115 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter W in our German index: