Alligator
[ˌaliˈɡaːtoːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Alligator” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,689. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,689
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertreter der Familie Alligatoridae innerhalb der Krokodile
Corpus desk
Index DE-alligator · Alligator · German
Alligator · rank #48,689 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,689
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Alleen
Nearest frequency peer: Alleen (-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 „Alligator“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Akquise
Akquise
51,315 corpus weight
- Albuquerque
Albuquerque
51,314 corpus weight
- Alleen
Alleen
51,313 corpus weight
- Alligator
Alligator
51,312 corpus weight
- altbekannten
altbekannten
51,311 corpus weight
- Altersstruk…
Altersstruktur
51,310 corpus weight
What this shows „Alligator“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alligator |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌaliˈɡaːtoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Alligator“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Alligator (IPA [ˌaliˈɡaːtoːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,689 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alligator, with forms such as "aligator", "alilgator", and "allgiator". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Alligator, spelled A-L-L-I-G-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Vertreter der Familie Alligatoridae innerhalb der Krokodile
- 2Vertreter der Gattung Alligator innerhalb von [1]
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Alligator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Was den Alligator anbelangt, so habe man ihn im November des Jahres 1825 unter den Klippen von Les Hachettes zu Saint-Honorine bei Port-en-Bessin im Arrondissement Bayeux entdeckt.“
Die Alligatoren sind am engsten mit den Kaimanen verwandt.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aligator
- alilgator
- allgiator
- alliagtor
- alligaotr
- alligatorr
- alligatro
- alligattor
- alliggator
- alligtaor
- laligator
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alligator - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Alligator", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).