autoritär
[aʊ̯toʁiˈtɛːɐ̯]
The verdict
“autoritär” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,616. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,616
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf gewaltsamer Autorität beruhend
Corpus desk
Index DE-autoritar · autoritär · German
autoritär · rank #38,616 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,616
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Autopsie
Nearest frequency peer: Autopsie (-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 „autoritär“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- auszukommen
auszukommen
61,388 corpus weight
- authority
authority
61,387 corpus weight
- Autopsie
Autopsie
61,386 corpus weight
- autoritär
autoritär
61,385 corpus weight
- avi
avi
61,384 corpus weight
- Babel
Babel
61,383 corpus weight
What this shows „autoritär“ 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 | autoritär |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [aʊ̯toʁiˈtɛːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „autoritär“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around autoritär (IPA [aʊ̯toʁiˈtɛːɐ̯]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,616 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for autoritär, with forms such as "atuoritär", "auotritär", and "autoirtär". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Autorität", "autoritäre", "autoritären", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 autoritär, spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-T-Ä-R.
Definition
- 1auf gewaltsamer Autorität beruhend
- 2unbedingten Gehorsam fordernd
- 3mit unumschränkter Autorität ausgestattet und so herrschend/agierend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autoritär appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das autoritäre Regime brachte eine Widerstandsbewegung hervor.
Die Erziehung war früher sehr autoritär.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuoritär
- auotritär
- autoirtär
- autoriträ
- autorittär
- autoritärr
- autoriätr
- autorritär
- autortiär
- autroitär
- auttoritär
- uatoritär
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autoritär - 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 "autoritär", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).