wrote
[ɹəʊt]
The verdict
“wrote” is uncommon German (frequency #58,465 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,465
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs write
Corpus desk
Index DE-wrote · wrote · German
wrote · rank #58,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,465
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH worker
Nearest frequency peer: worker (-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 „wrote“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wolgograd
Wolgograd
41,539 corpus weight
- worker
worker
41,537 corpus weight
- wrote
wrote
41,536 corpus weight
- Wärmepumpe
Wärmepumpe
41,535 corpus weight
- wärmere
wärmere
41,534 corpus weight
- Xinjiang
Xinjiang
41,533 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wrote“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wrote |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɹəʊt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wrote“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wrote is uncommon German at frequency #58,465 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɹəʊt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs write".
wrote has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is wrote, spelled W-R-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs write
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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