Cartoon
[kaʁˈtuːn]
The verdict
“Cartoon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,875
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine aus nur einem Panel bestehende Zeichnung, welche satirisch, und/oder komisch, manchmal auch politisch orientiert ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-cartoon · Cartoon · German
Cartoon · rank #20,875 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,875
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH carbon
Nearest frequency peer: carbon (-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 „Cartoon“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bündel
Bündel
79,129 corpus weight
- bündeln
bündeln
79,128 corpus weight
- carbon
carbon
79,127 corpus weight
- Cartoon
Cartoon
79,126 corpus weight
- Cholera
Cholera
79,125 corpus weight
- Chrom
Chrom
79,124 corpus weight
What this shows „Cartoon“ 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 | Cartoon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaʁˈtuːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Cartoon“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Cartoon (IPA [kaʁˈtuːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,875 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 Cartoon, with forms such as "acrtoon", "caroton", and "carrtoon". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Cartoons", "carbon", "Carson", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Cartoon, spelled C-A-R-T-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1eine aus nur einem Panel bestehende Zeichnung, welche satirisch, und/oder komisch, manchmal auch politisch orientiert ist
- 2(westlicher) Zeichentrickfilm
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cartoon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Englischsprachige Zeitungen nehmen oft Cartoons zur Ausschmückung ihrer Artikel auf.
„Auf dem Cartoon sind zwei Männer zu sehen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrtoon
- caroton
- carrtoon
- carton
- cartono
- cartoonn
- carttoon
- catroon
- ccartoon
- cratoon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cartoon - 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 "Cartoon", 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).