Aktivist
[aktiˈvɪst]
The verdict
“Aktivist” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,494. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,494
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - engagierte, zielbewusst häufig gesellschaftlich oder politisch handelnde Person
Corpus desk
Index DE-aktivist · Aktivist · German
Aktivist · rank #17,494 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,494
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Aktivierung
Nearest frequency peer: Aktivierung (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Aktivist“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- abstrakt
abstrakt
82,510 corpus weight
- Aktivierung
Aktivierung
82,508 corpus weight
- Aktivist
Aktivist
82,507 corpus weight
- Alexis
Alexis
82,506 corpus weight
- Amberg
Amberg
82,505 corpus weight
- Ambitionen
Ambitionen
82,504 corpus weight
What this shows „Aktivist“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aktivist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aktiˈvɪst] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Aktivist“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Aktivist (IPA [aktiˈvɪst]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,494 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Aktivist, with forms such as "akitvist", "akktivist", and "aktiivst". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Aktivität", "Aktivisten", "Aktivistin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Aktivist, spelled A-K-T-I-V-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1engagierte, zielbewusst häufig gesellschaftlich oder politisch handelnde Person
- 2staatliche Auszeichnung, Kurzform für Aktivist der sozialistischen Arbeit, werktätige Person in der DDR, die Leistungen erbracht hat, die über die Normen und Vorgaben hinausgingen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Aktivist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Aktivisten fertigten Wahlplakate an.
„Schon seit Wochen berichten Aktivisten, wie sie von der Polizei eingeschüchtert werden, in Form von Hausdurchsuchungen oder Vorladungen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akitvist
- akktivist
- aktiivst
- aktivisst
- aktivistt
- aktivits
- aktivsit
- aktivvist
- akttivist
- aktviist
- atkivist
- kativist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Aktivist - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Aktivist", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).