wollte
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#298
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
wollte is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wollen Pronounced [ˈvɔltə]. It ranks #298 in German word frequency. Often confused with Worte and wollten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wollte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvɔltə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wollte is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɔltə]. Corpus data places it at rank #298 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for wollte, with forms such as "owllte", "wlolte", and "wollet". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Worte", "wollten", "wolltet", 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 wollte, spelled W-O-L-L-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 wollen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wollen
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wollen
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wollen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: owllte,wlolte,wollet,wolltte,wolte,woltle,wwollte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for wollte
Misspelling Variants of "wollte"
Frequency rank: #298 in German
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Nearby German words
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