Archäologe
[aʁçɛoˈloːɡə]
The verdict
“Archäologe” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #41,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,032
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die in der Archäologie ausgebildet und bewandert ist, sich also mit den materiellen Überresten vor allem alter Kulturen befasst
Corpus desk
Index DE-archaologe · Archäologe · German
Archäologe · rank #41,032 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,032
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Archipel
Nearest frequency peer: Archipel (-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 „Archäologe“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- anzufassen
anzufassen
58,972 corpus weight
- Arbeitsmark…
Arbeitsmarktes
58,971 corpus weight
- Archipel
Archipel
58,970 corpus weight
- Archäologe
Archäologe
58,969 corpus weight
- aslan
aslan
58,968 corpus weight
- atemberaube…
atemberaubenden
58,967 corpus weight
What this shows „Archäologe“ 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 | Archäologe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aʁçɛoˈloːɡə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Archäologe“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Archäologe (IPA [aʁçɛoˈloːɡə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,032 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die in der Archäologie ausgebildet und bewandert ist, sich also mit den materiellen Überresten vor allem alter Kulturen befasst".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Archäologe, with forms such as "acrhäologe", "arcchäologe", and "archhäologe". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Archäologie", "Archäologen", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Archäologe, spelled A-R-C-H-Ä-O-L-O-G-E.
Definition
- 1Person, die in der Archäologie ausgebildet und bewandert ist, sich also mit den materiellen Überresten vor allem alter Kulturen befasst
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Archäologe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Archäologen verschaffen uns Kenntnisse über die Kulturen, die in einer Zeit entstanden, als es noch keine Schrift gab.
„Die Archäologen arbeiteten bei der Erforschung und Interpretation der Funde mit zahlreichen Kollegen aus Nachbardisziplinen zusammen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrhäologe
- arcchäologe
- archhäologe
- archoäloge
- archälooge
- archäolgoe
- archäolloge
- archäoloeg
- archäologge
- archäoolge
- arcähologe
- arhcäologe
- arrchäologe
- rachäologe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Archäologe - 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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Similar misspelling depth
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