wired

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The verdict

“wired” is uncommon German (frequency #55,040 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,040
frequency rank, German
2,930
“W” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs wire

Corpus desk

Index DE-wired · wired · German

wired · rank #55,040 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,040
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,930
  • PHOTO-FINISH Windungen

Nearest frequency peer: Windungen (-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 „wired“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wired“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for wired
PropertyValue
Headwordwired
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#55,040
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „wired“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.wiredfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Windungen“ (#55,039), „wirkendes“ (#55,041), „Windböen“ (#55,038). Unter 2,930 „W“-Lemmata liegt „wired“ bei #55,040. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

wired is uncommon German at frequency #55,040 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs wire".

wired doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 wired, spelled W-I-R-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs wire

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wired"?
"wired" is spelled W-I-R-E-D. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "wired" mean?
As a verb, "wired" means: Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs wire
How do you pronounce "wired"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wired" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "wired", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

weiht#55,028walls#55,023usher#54,984Assis#55,136

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list