caritas
The verdict
“caritas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,566. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,566
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - höherer Wert, hoher Preis; Wert einer Sache; Teuerung;
Corpus desk
Index DE-caritas · caritas · German
caritas · rank #13,566 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,566
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Bücherei
Nearest frequency peer: Bücherei (-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 „caritas“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Betriebsrat
Betriebsrat
86,439 corpus weight
- bezahlten
bezahlten
86,438 corpus weight
- Blockade
Blockade
86,437 corpus weight
- Bücherei
Bücherei
86,436 corpus weight
- caritas
caritas
86,435 corpus weight
- Cheftrainer
Cheftrainer
86,434 corpus weight
What this shows „caritas“ 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 | caritas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „caritas“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around caritas, anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,566 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for caritas, with forms such as "acritas", "cairtas", and "cariats". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Carina", "capital", "Caracas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 caritas, spelled C-A-R-I-T-A-S.
Definition
- 1höherer Wert, hoher Preis; Wert einer Sache; Teuerung;
- 2Liebe, Verehrung, Zuneigung, Wertschätzung, Hochschätzung, Hochachtung
- 3hingebende Liebe, christliche Liebe, Nächstenliebe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caritas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„patrem familiae villam rusticam bene aedificatam habere expedit, cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare: et rei et virtuti et gloriae erit.“ (Cato, agr. 3, 2)
„1 si linguis hominum loquar et angelorum caritatem autem non habeam factus sum velut aes sonans aut cymbalum tinniens... 4 caritas patiens est benigna est caritas non aemulatur non agit perperam non inflatur...
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acritas
- cairtas
- cariats
- caritass
- caritsa
- carittas
- carritas
- cartias
- ccaritas
- craitas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caritas - 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 "caritas", 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).