Asteroid
[asteʁoˈiːt]
The verdict
“Asteroid” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #42,349. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,349
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleines, planetenähnliches Objekt, welches sich auf einer Keplerschen Umlaufbahn um die Sonne bewegt
Corpus desk
Index DE-asteroid · Asteroid · German
Asteroid · rank #42,349 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,349
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Artisten
Nearest frequency peer: Artisten (-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 „Asteroid“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Armaturen
Armaturen
57,655 corpus weight
- Artefakt
Artefakt
57,654 corpus weight
- Artisten
Artisten
57,653 corpus weight
- Asteroid
Asteroid
57,652 corpus weight
- aufgeführte
aufgeführte
57,651 corpus weight
- aufgeworfen
aufgeworfen
57,650 corpus weight
What this shows „Asteroid“ 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 | Asteroid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [asteʁoˈiːt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Asteroid“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Asteroid (IPA [asteʁoˈiːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,349 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "kleines, planetenähnliches Objekt, welches sich auf einer Keplerschen Umlaufbahn um die Sonne bewegt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Asteroid, with forms such as "asetroid", "assteroid", and "asteorid". 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, "Astrid", "asteroiden", "Asterix", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Asteroid, spelled A-S-T-E-R-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1kleines, planetenähnliches Objekt, welches sich auf einer Keplerschen Umlaufbahn um die Sonne bewegt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Asteroid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Asteroiden sind mit bloßem Auge nicht zu beobachten.
„Bald kam der Tag, an dem die Siedler schon zwei Jahre auf der Insel Lincoln wohnten, fast so einsam wie auf einem Asteroiden irgendwo im Milchstraßensystem.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asetroid
- assteroid
- asteorid
- asteriod
- asterodi
- asteroidd
- asterroid
- astreoid
- astteroid
- atseroid
- sateroid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Asteroid - 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 "Asteroid", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).