Chronist
[kʁoˈnɪst]
The verdict
“Chronist” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,434. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,434
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die eine Chronik verfasst oder zumindest mitverfasst hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-chronist · Chronist · German
Chronist · rank #37,434 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,434
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH CHU
Nearest frequency peer: CHU (+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 „Chronist“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- chai
chai
62,571 corpus weight
- chapeau
chapeau
62,570 corpus weight
- chemical
chemical
62,569 corpus weight
- Chronist
Chronist
62,567 corpus weight
- CHU
CHU
62,566 corpus weight
- Cochem
Cochem
62,564 corpus weight
What this shows „Chronist“ 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 | Chronist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁoˈnɪst] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Chronist“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Chronist (IPA [kʁoˈnɪst]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,434 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die eine Chronik verfasst oder zumindest mitverfasst hat".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chronist, with forms such as "cchronist", "chhronist", and "chornist". 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, "Chronisten", "Christ", "Chronik", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Chronist, spelled C-H-R-O-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die eine Chronik verfasst oder zumindest mitverfasst hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chronist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Manchmal, so berichtet ein unbekannter Chronist um das Jahr 900, bieten die Sklavenhändler auch Nonnen feil.“
„Die Chronisten und wenig später die frühneuzeitlichen Historiographen und Gelehrten nutzen sämtliche Zuordnungsmöglichkeiten, wahrscheinliche und abwegige.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchronist
- chhronist
- chornist
- chrnoist
- chroinst
- chronisst
- chronistt
- chronits
- chronnist
- chronsit
- chrronist
- crhonist
- hcronist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chronist - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Chronist", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).