Attentat
[ˈatn̩ˌtaːt]
The verdict
“Attentat” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #10,807 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #10,807
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mord oder versuchter Mord an einem öffentlich bekannten, meist politisch einflussreichen Menschen beziehungsweise an einer bestimmten Menschengruppe
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 | Attentat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈatn̩ˌtaːt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Attentat” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Attentat is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈatn̩ˌtaːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,807 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mord oder versuchter Mord an einem öffentlich bekannten, meist politisch einflussreichen Menschen beziehungsweise an einer bestimmten Menschengruppe".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Attentat, with forms such as "atentat", "atetntat", and "attenatt". 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, "Attentate", "Attentäter", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Attentat, spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Mord oder versuchter Mord an einem öffentlich bekannten, meist politisch einflussreichen Menschen beziehungsweise an einer bestimmten Menschengruppe
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atentat,atetntat,attenatt,attenntat,attentatt,attentta,attenttat,attetnat,attnetat,tatentat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Attentat - 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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Using “Attentat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-T-T-E-N-T-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈatn̩ˌtaːt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Attentate” - see the side-by-side comparison. Attentat vs Attentate
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.