Antrieb
[ˈanˌtʁiːp]
The verdict
“Antrieb” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,147. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,147
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - technische Vorrichtung, die etwas treibt, die etwas in Bewegung versetzt
Corpus desk
Index DE-antrieb · Antrieb · German
Antrieb · rank #7,147 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,147
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH anonym
Nearest frequency peer: anonym (-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 „Antrieb“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- AK
AK
92,857 corpus weight
- analysiert
analysiert
92,856 corpus weight
- anonym
anonym
92,855 corpus weight
- Antrieb
Antrieb
92,854 corpus weight
- Applaus
Applaus
92,853 corpus weight
- Aufträge
Aufträge
92,852 corpus weight
What this shows „Antrieb“ 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 | Antrieb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈanˌtʁiːp] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Antrieb“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Antrieb (IPA [ˈanˌtʁiːp]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,147 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Antrieb, with forms such as "anntrieb", "anrtieb", and "antireb". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Antritt", "Auftrieb", "Antriebe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Antrieb, spelled A-N-T-R-I-E-B.
Definition
- 1technische Vorrichtung, die etwas treibt, die etwas in Bewegung versetzt
- 2innere Motivation etwas zu tun; der Grund für eine Handlung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Antrieb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mein Spielzeugauto ist mit einem elektrischen Antrieb ausgestattet.
„Denn es war gar nicht so einfach, den Antrieb nach hinten zu verlagern, den Motorradmotor mit einem automobilen Renngetriebe zu verheiraten und die unterschiedlichen Schaltkreise miteinander zu verknüpfen, erzählt er von den Kniffen der Konstruktion.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anntrieb
- anrtieb
- antireb
- antreib
- antribe
- antriebb
- antrrieb
- anttrieb
- atnrieb
- natrieb
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Antrieb - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Antrieb", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).