wollten
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,048
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
wollten is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wollen Pronounced [ˈvɔltn̩]. It ranks #1,048 in German word frequency. Often confused with Worten and wolltet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wollten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvɔltn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wollten is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɔltn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,048 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for wollten, with forms such as "owllten", "wlolten", and "wolletn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Worten", "wolltet", "wolltest", 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 wollten, spelled W-O-L-L-T-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 Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wollen
- 23. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wollen
- 31. Person Plural Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wollen
- 43. Person Plural Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs wollen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: owllten,wlolten,wolletn,wolltenn,wolltne,wolltten,wolten,woltlen,wwollten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for wollten
Misspelling Variants of "wollten"
Frequency rank: #1,048 in German
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Nearby German words
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