defender
[dɨ.fẽ.ˈdeɾ]
The verdict
“defender” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #43,804. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,804
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verteidigen, beschützen
Corpus desk
Index DE-defender · defender · German
defender · rank #43,804 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,804
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Deeskalation
Nearest frequency peer: Deeskalation (-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 „defender“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- davonkommen
davonkommen
56,200 corpus weight
- Debian
Debian
56,199 corpus weight
- Deeskalation
Deeskalation
56,198 corpus weight
- defender
defender
56,197 corpus weight
- Dekolleté
Dekolleté
56,196 corpus weight
- denkmalgesc…
denkmalgeschützte
56,195 corpus weight
What this shows „defender“ 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 | defender |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [dɨ.fẽ.ˈdeɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „defender“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around defender (IPA [dɨ.fẽ.ˈdeɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,804 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "verteidigen, beschützen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for defender, with forms such as "ddefender", "deefnder", and "defedner". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "denkender", "defence", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is defender, spelled D-E-F-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1verteidigen, beschützen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how defender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Os insetos (mosquitos, vespas, abelhas), picam para se alimentar ou para se defender.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddefender
- deefnder
- defedner
- defendder
- defenderr
- defendre
- defenedr
- defennder
- deffender
- defneder
- dfeender
- edfender
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of defender - 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 "defender", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).