Auftakt
[ˈaʊ̯ftakt]
The verdict
“Auftakt” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,010. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,010
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unvollständiger Takt zu Beginn eines Satzes
Corpus desk
Index DE-auftakt · Auftakt · German
Auftakt · rank #7,010 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,010
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH aufgefordert
Nearest frequency peer: aufgefordert (-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 „Auftakt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Anzug
Anzug
92,994 corpus weight
- Asche
Asche
92,993 corpus weight
- aufgefordert
aufgefordert
92,992 corpus weight
- Auftakt
Auftakt
92,991 corpus weight
- ausfallen
ausfallen
92,990 corpus weight
- Ausgangspun…
Ausgangspunkt
92,989 corpus weight
What this shows „Auftakt“ 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 | Auftakt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯ftakt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Auftakt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Auftakt (IPA [ˈaʊ̯ftakt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,010 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Auftakt, with forms such as "afutakt", "aufatkt", and "aufftakt". 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, "auftrat", "aufhält", "aufbaut", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Auftakt, spelled A-U-F-T-A-K-T.
Definition
- 1unvollständiger Takt zu Beginn eines Satzes
- 2der Phrasenbeginn im Auftakt; Anakrusis
- 3Anfang, Beginn eines bestimmten Ereignisses
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Auftakt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Auftakt dieses Satzes besteht aus 3 Achteln.
Manche können den Auftakt zur Fußballweltmeisterschaft kaum erwarten.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afutakt
- aufatkt
- aufftakt
- auftakkt
- auftaktt
- auftatk
- auftkat
- aufttakt
- autfakt
- uaftakt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Auftakt - 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 "Auftakt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).