captain
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The verdict
“captain” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,738. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,738
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Schiff führen, ein Schiff befehligen
Corpus desk
Index DE-captain · captain · German
captain · rank #7,738 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,738
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Cannabis
Nearest frequency peer: Cannabis (-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 „captain“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bucht
Bucht
92,266 corpus weight
- Bulgarien
Bulgarien
92,265 corpus weight
- Cannabis
Cannabis
92,264 corpus weight
- captain
captain
92,263 corpus weight
- challenge
challenge
92,262 corpus weight
- Chips
Chips
92,260 corpus weight
What this shows „captain“ 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 | captain |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „captain“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around captain (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,738 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for captain, with forms such as "acptain", "capatin", and "capptain". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "certain", "of", "ii", and more, 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 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 captain, spelled C-A-P-T-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1ein Schiff führen, ein Schiff befehligen
- 2Mannschaftskapitän sein, ein Team anführen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how captain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Ferdinand Magellan captained the first fleet of ships to circumnavigate, or sail around, the world."
"Golden Hind ~ described as a pinnace of some 50 tonnes. She was captained by Thomas Fleming and played a brave role in the fight against the Spanish Armada by serving as the English fleet's lookout."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acptain
- capatin
- capptain
- captainn
- captani
- captian
- capttain
- catpain
- ccaptain
- cpatain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of captain - 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 "captain", 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).