Apartheid
[aˈpaːɐ̯thaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Apartheid” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #28,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,062
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - frühere Rassentrennung zwischen Schwarzen und Weißen in Südafrika
Corpus desk
Index DE-apartheid · Apartheid · German
Apartheid · rank #28,062 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,062
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH anzukommen
Nearest frequency peer: anzukommen (-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 „Apartheid“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- anständiges
anständiges
71,942 corpus weight
- Anwaltskanz…
Anwaltskanzlei
71,941 corpus weight
- anzukommen
anzukommen
71,940 corpus weight
- Apartheid
Apartheid
71,939 corpus weight
- architekton…
architektonische
71,938 corpus weight
- areas
areas
71,937 corpus weight
What this shows „Apartheid“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Apartheid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈpaːɐ̯thaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Apartheid“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Apartheid (IPA [aˈpaːɐ̯thaɪ̯t]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,062 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "frühere Rassentrennung zwischen Schwarzen und Weißen in Südafrika".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Apartheid, with forms such as "aaprtheid", "aparhteid", and "aparrtheid". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Apartheid, spelled A-P-A-R-T-H-E-I-D.
Definition
- 1frühere Rassentrennung zwischen Schwarzen und Weißen in Südafrika
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Apartheid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zu Zeiten der Apartheid in Südafrika war es Schwarzen verboten, Weiße zu heiraten.
„Er war eine der wichtigsten Führungsfiguren im Kampf gegen die Apartheid und wurde nach deren Ende der erste schwarze Präsident Südafrikas.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aaprtheid
- aparhteid
- aparrtheid
- apartehid
- aparthedi
- apartheidd
- aparthheid
- aparthied
- aparttheid
- apatrheid
- appartheid
- apratheid
- paartheid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Apartheid - 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
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).