Attentat
[ˈatn̩ˌtaːt]
The verdict
“Attentat” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,807. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,807
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mord oder versuchter Mord an einem öffentlich bekannten, meist politisch einflussreichen Menschen beziehungsweise an einer bestimmten Menschengruppe
Corpus desk
Index DE-attentat · Attentat · German
Attentat · rank #10,807 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,807
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Atom
Nearest frequency peer: Atom (-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 „Attentat“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Annäherung
Annäherung
89,197 corpus weight
- Arbeitsgeme…
Arbeitsgemeinschaft
89,196 corpus weight
- Atom
Atom
89,195 corpus weight
- Attentat
Attentat
89,194 corpus weight
- attraktive
attraktive
89,193 corpus weight
- Aufteilung
Aufteilung
89,192 corpus weight
What this shows „Attentat“ 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 | 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) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Attentat“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Attentat (IPA [ˈatn̩ˌtaːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,807 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Attentat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eine Organisation plant ein Attentat auf den finnischen Ministerpräsidenten.
„Durch das fehlgeschlagene Attentat auf Hitler am 20. Juli 1944 wurden sie zu Märtyrern, deren Vermächtnis für das Nachkriegsdeutschland der Bundesrepublik symbolhafte Bedeutung hat.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Attentat", 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).