arrogant
[aʁoˈɡant]
The verdict
“arrogant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,312. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,312
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - überheblich und genüsslich seine vermeintlich besseren Einflüsse oder Fähigkeiten zeigend; selbstgefällig
Corpus desk
Index DE-arrogant · arrogant · German
arrogant · rank #13,312 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,312
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Arbeitswelt
Nearest frequency peer: Arbeitswelt (-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 „arrogant“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- AO
AO
86,692 corpus weight
- Apostel
Apostel
86,691 corpus weight
- Arbeitswelt
Arbeitswelt
86,690 corpus weight
- arrogant
arrogant
86,689 corpus weight
- association
association
86,688 corpus weight
- aufgemacht
aufgemacht
86,687 corpus weight
What this shows „arrogant“ 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 | arrogant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [aʁoˈɡant] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „arrogant“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around arrogant (IPA [aʁoˈɡant]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,312 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "überheblich und genüsslich seine vermeintlich besseren Einflüsse oder Fähigkeiten zeigend; selbstgefällig".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrogant, with forms such as "arogant", "arorgant", and "arrgoant". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Arroganz", "arrogante", "arroganten", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is arrogant, spelled A-R-R-O-G-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1überheblich und genüsslich seine vermeintlich besseren Einflüsse oder Fähigkeiten zeigend; selbstgefällig
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arrogant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich kann sein arrogantes Lächeln einfach nicht mehr sehen!“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arogant
- arorgant
- arrgoant
- arroagnt
- arrogannt
- arrogantt
- arrogatn
- arroggant
- arrognat
- rarogant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrogant - 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 "arrogant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).