ambivalent
[ambivaˈlɛnt]
The verdict
“ambivalent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #47,932. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,932
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - doppelwertig
Corpus desk
Index DE-ambivalent · ambivalent · German
ambivalent · rank #47,932 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,932
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH alumni
Nearest frequency peer: alumni (-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 „ambivalent“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- alkoholisie…
alkoholisiert
52,074 corpus weight
- alumni
alumni
52,070 corpus weight
- ambivalent
ambivalent
52,069 corpus weight
- Aneinanderr…
Aneinanderreihung
52,067 corpus weight
- anfälliger
anfälliger
52,066 corpus weight
- Angeber
Angeber
52,065 corpus weight
What this shows „ambivalent“ 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 | ambivalent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ambivaˈlɛnt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #47,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „ambivalent“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around ambivalent (IPA [ambivaˈlɛnt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,932 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for ambivalent, with forms such as "abmivalent", "ambbivalent", and "ambiavlent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "äquivalent", "Ambivalenz", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ambivalent, spelled A-M-B-I-V-A-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1doppelwertig
- 2widersprüchlich, zwiespältig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ambivalent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seine Gefühle ihr gegenüber sind ambivalent, sowohl positiv als auch negativ.
„Kehrer ist wohl eine der ambivalentesten Figuren der damaligen Zeit.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmivalent
- ambbivalent
- ambiavlent
- ambivaelnt
- ambivalennt
- ambivalentt
- ambivaletn
- ambivallent
- ambivalnet
- ambivlaent
- ambivvalent
- ambvialent
- amibvalent
- ammbivalent
- mabivalent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ambivalent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).