amerikanisch
[ameʁiˈkaːnɪʃ]
The verdict
“amerikanisch” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,463
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - den Kontinent Amerika betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-amerikanisch · amerikanisch · German
amerikanisch · rank #18,463 · 18 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,463
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Alleingang
Nearest frequency peer: Alleingang (-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 „amerikanisch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Akustik
Akustik
81,541 corpus weight
- Alberto
Alberto
81,540 corpus weight
- Alleingang
Alleingang
81,539 corpus weight
- amerikanisch
amerikanisch
81,538 corpus weight
- analogen
analogen
81,537 corpus weight
- Analogie
Analogie
81,536 corpus weight
What this shows „amerikanisch“ 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 | amerikanisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ameʁiˈkaːnɪʃ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #18,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „amerikanisch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around amerikanisch (IPA [ameʁiˈkaːnɪʃ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,463 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for amerikanisch, with forms such as "aemrikanisch", "ameirkanisch", and "ameriaknisch". 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. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "amerikanische", "amerikanischen", "amerikanischer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is amerikanisch, spelled A-M-E-R-I-K-A-N-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1den Kontinent Amerika betreffend
- 2die USA beziehungsweise die Einwohner der USA betreffend
- 3das in den USA gesprochene Englisch betreffend
- 4die Amerikanische Einstellung (Kameraeinstellung) betreffend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amerikanisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der amerikanische Doppelkontinent hat eine Landfläche von etwa 42 Millionen km².
„Ausländische Botschaften, allen voran die bundesrepublikanische und die amerikanische, evakuierten ihre Staatsbürger.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aemrikanisch
- ameirkanisch
- ameriaknisch
- amerikainsch
- amerikanicsh
- amerikaniscch
- amerikanischh
- amerikanishc
- amerikanissch
- amerikannisch
- amerikansich
- amerikkanisch
- ameriknaisch
- amerkianisch
- amerrikanisch
- ammerikanisch
- amreikanisch
- maerikanisch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amerikanisch - 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 "amerikanisch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).