debattieren
[debaˈtiːʁən]
The verdict
“debattieren” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,581. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,581
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Auseinandersetzung, Debatte, Diskussion führen
Corpus desk
Index DE-debattieren · debattieren · German
debattieren · rank #34,581 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,581
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dackel
Nearest frequency peer: Dackel (-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 „debattieren“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- competition
competition
65,423 corpus weight
- couleur
couleur
65,422 corpus weight
- Dackel
Dackel
65,421 corpus weight
- debattieren
debattieren
65,420 corpus weight
- dekorativen
dekorativen
65,419 corpus weight
- demographis…
demographische
65,418 corpus weight
What this shows „debattieren“ 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 | debattieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [debaˈtiːʁən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #34,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „debattieren“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around debattieren (IPA [debaˈtiːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,581 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine Auseinandersetzung, Debatte, Diskussion führen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for debattieren, with forms such as "dbeattieren", "ddebattieren", and "deabttieren". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "debattiert", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is debattieren, spelled D-E-B-A-T-T-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Auseinandersetzung, Debatte, Diskussion führen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how debattieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sehr wenig ist jedoch über die grundlegende Bevölkerungsstruktur dieser Jahre bekannt – selbst die Einwohnerzahl wird heftig debattiert.
„Merkel wählte diesen Bypass, statt Parlament und Gesellschaft debattieren zu lassen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbeattieren
- ddebattieren
- deabttieren
- debatieren
- debatiteren
- debatteiren
- debattieern
- debattierenn
- debattierne
- debattierren
- debattireen
- debbattieren
- debtatieren
- edbattieren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of debattieren - 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 "debattieren", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).