Checkpoint
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,691
in German word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Checkpoint is aGermannoun. It means: Stelle (besonders an Absperrungen, Grenzübergängen), an der Personen und Fahrzeuge einer Kontrolle, Überprüfung unterzogen werden Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃɛkˌpɔɪ̯nt].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Checkpoint |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃɛkˌpɔɪ̯nt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Checkpoint is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃɛkˌpɔɪ̯nt]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,691 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 generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Checkpoint, with forms such as "ccheckpoint", "cehckpoint", and "chcekpoint". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Checkpoint, spelled C-H-E-C-K-P-O-I-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Stelle (besonders an Absperrungen, Grenzübergängen), an der Personen und Fahrzeuge einer Kontrolle, Überprüfung unterzogen werden
- 2geografisches Merkmal, das Piloten während des Fluges der Orientierung dient
- 3Fixpunkt innerhalb eines Programms, auf den nach einem Fehler oder einer Unterbrechung (zum Beispiel durch Ausfall der EDV-Anlage, Stromausfall) zurückgegriffen werden kann, sodass die Fortsetzung des Programms gewährleistet bleibt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccheckpoint,cehckpoint,chcekpoint,checckpoint,checkkpoint,checkopint,checkpiont,checkpoinnt,checkpointt,checkpoitn,checkponit,checkppoint,checpkoint,chekcpoint,chheckpoint,hceckpoint
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Checkpoint
Misspelling Variants of "Checkpoint"
Frequency rank: #35,691 in German
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Nearby German words
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