dating
[ˈdeɪtɪŋ]
The verdict
“dating” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,906. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,906
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs date
Corpus desk
Index DE-dating · dating · German
dating · rank #6,906 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,906
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Campus
Nearest frequency peer: Campus (-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 „dating“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bürgerlichen
bürgerlichen
93,097 corpus weight
- Campus
Campus
93,096 corpus weight
- dating
dating
93,095 corpus weight
- Depression
Depression
93,094 corpus weight
- deutet
deutet
93,093 corpus weight
- Dinger
Dinger
93,092 corpus weight
What this shows „dating“ 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 | dating |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdeɪtɪŋ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „dating“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dating (IPA [ˈdeɪtɪŋ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,906 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs date".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dating, with forms such as "adting", "daitng", and "datign". 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 also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Ding", "Dativ", "doing", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is dating, spelled D-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs date
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adting
- daitng
- datign
- datingg
- datinng
- datnig
- datting
- ddating
- dtaing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dating - 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 "dating", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).