Ämter
[ˈɛmtɐ]
The verdict
“Ämter” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,489. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,489
- frequency rank, German
- 75
- “Ä” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Amt
Corpus desk
Index DE-amter · Ämter · German
Ämter · rank #9,489 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,489
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 75
- PHOTO-FINISH Zufriedenheit
Nearest frequency peer: Zufriedenheit (-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 „Ämter“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- weltweite
weltweite
90,515 corpus weight
- zero
zero
90,514 corpus weight
- Zufriedenhe…
Zufriedenheit
90,513 corpus weight
- Ämter
Ämter
90,512 corpus weight
- ärgerlich
ärgerlich
90,511 corpus weight
- Überraschun…
Überraschungen
90,510 corpus weight
What this shows „Ämter“ 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 | Ämter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛmtɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Ämter“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Ämter (IPA [ˈɛmtɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,489 among 75 “Ä” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ämter, with forms such as "mäter", "ämetr", and "ämmter". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Atem", "arte", "Amts", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Ämter, spelled Ä-M-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Amt
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Amt
- 3Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Amt
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mäter
- ämetr
- ämmter
- ämterr
- ämtre
- ämtter
- ätmer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ämter - 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 "Ämter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).