Charakter
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,100
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
Charakter is aGermannoun. It means: Gesamtheit der angeborenen und anerzogenen, geistig-seelischen Eigenschaften eines Menschen (Charaktereigenschaften) Pronounced [kaˈʁaktɐ]. It ranks #2,100 in German word frequency. Often confused with charter and Charaktere.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Charakter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈʁaktɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Charakter is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈʁaktɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,100 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for Charakter, with forms such as "cahrakter", "ccharakter", and "chaarkter". 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, "charter", "Charaktere", "Charakters", 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 Charakter, spelled C-H-A-R-A-K-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gesamtheit der angeborenen und anerzogenen, geistig-seelischen Eigenschaften eines Menschen (Charaktereigenschaften)
- 2Merkmal, charakteristische Eigenart
- 3eine Zahl als Homomorphismus in den Grundkörper
- 4Rolle, die einen besonders ausgeprägten Charakter ^([2]) aufweist
- 5Schriftzeichen
- 6Titel, Rang
- 7fiktive Person oder Figur in einem Buch, Film, Rollenspiel, Videospiel oder dergleichen
- 8Person mit einer bestimmten, prägenden Eigenschaft
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahrakter,ccharakter,chaarkter,charaketr,charakkter,charakterr,charaktre,charaktter,charatker,charkater,charrakter,chharakter,chraakter,hcarakter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Charakter
Misspelling Variants of "Charakter"
Frequency rank: #2,100 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our German index: