wäret
[ˈvɛːʁət]
The verdict
“wäret” is uncommon German (frequency #86,075 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,075
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum des Verbs sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-waret · wäret · German
wäret · rank #86,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,075
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wächtern
Nearest frequency peer: Wächtern (-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 „wäret“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wortbedeutu…
Wortbedeutung
13,931 corpus weight
- wren
wren
13,930 corpus weight
- Wunderheiler
Wunderheiler
13,929 corpus weight
- Wächtern
Wächtern
13,927 corpus weight
- wäret
wäret
13,926 corpus weight
- Ypern
Ypern
13,925 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wäret“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wäret |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvɛːʁət] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wäret“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wäret is uncommon German at frequency #86,075 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈvɛːʁət]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum des Verbs sein".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for wäret, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is wäret, spelled W-Ä-R-E-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum des Verbs sein
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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