caritas

noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,566

in German word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

caritas is aGermannoun. It means: höherer Wert, hoher Preis; Wert einer Sache; Teuerung; Often confused with Carina and capital.

Key facts for caritas
PropertyValue
Headwordcaritas
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#13,566
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of caritas in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for caritas is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #13,566 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for caritas, with forms such as "acritas", "cairtas", and "cariats". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is caritas, spelled C-A-R-I-T-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    höherer Wert, hoher Preis; Wert einer Sache; Teuerung;
  2. 2
    Liebe, Verehrung, Zuneigung, Wertschätzung, Hochschätzung, Hochachtung
  3. 3
    hingebende Liebe, christliche Liebe, Nächstenliebe

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acritas,cairtas,cariats,caritass,caritsa,carittas,carritas,cartias,ccaritas,craitas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caritas

Misspelling Variants of "caritas"

acritas7cairtas7cariats7caritass8caritsa7carittas8carritas8cartias7
Misspelling Variants of "caritas"

Frequency rank: #13,566 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "caritas"?
"caritas" is spelled C-A-R-I-T-A-S.
What does "caritas" mean?
As a noun, "caritas" means: höherer Wert, hoher Preis; Wert einer Sache; Teuerung;
What words are commonly confused with "caritas"?
"caritas" is commonly confused with "Carina", "capital", "Caracas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "caritas" come from?
"caritas" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.