erkälten
\ɛɐ̯ˈkɛltn̩\
The verdict
“erkälten” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre froid, s’enrhumer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erkalten · erkälten · French
erkälten · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | erkälten |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɐ̯ˈkɛltn̩\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « erkälten » en français
Rare enough to double-check
erkälten is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛɐ̯ˈkɛltn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prendre froid, s’enrhumer.".
erkälten has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 French form is erkälten, spelled E-R-K-Ä-L-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Prendre froid, s’enrhumer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erkälten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nach dem Baden muss man sich gut abtrocknen, um sich nicht zu erkälten.
»Arme Kleine, Sie sollten lieber nicht am offenen Fenster da stehen bleiben, Sie werden sich erkälten. Sie sind schon ganz violett im Gesicht.«
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.