Delikatesse
[delikaˈtɛsə]
The verdict
“Delikatesse” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,520
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - besonders wohlschmeckende Speise
Corpus desk
Index DE-delikatesse · Delikatesse · German
Delikatesse · rank #44,520 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,520
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Demokratiever…
Nearest frequency peer: Demokratieverständnis (+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 „Delikatesse“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- dare
dare
55,484 corpus weight
- Dauerbrenner
Dauerbrenner
55,483 corpus weight
- Delikatesse
Delikatesse
55,481 corpus weight
- Demokratiev…
Demokratieverständnis
55,480 corpus weight
- designen
designen
55,479 corpus weight
- desinfizier…
desinfizieren
55,478 corpus weight
What this shows „Delikatesse“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delikatesse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [delikaˈtɛsə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #44,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Delikatesse“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Delikatesse (IPA [delikaˈtɛsə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,520 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Delikatesse, with forms such as "ddelikatesse", "deilkatesse", and "deliaktesse". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Delikatesse, spelled D-E-L-I-K-A-T-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1besonders wohlschmeckende Speise
- 2besonders rücksichtsvolle Einstellung anderen gegenüber
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Delikatesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Delikatessen kann man sich nicht immer leisten.
„Ich esse mit schlechtem Gewissen und starkem Mißtrauen, und der Rehbraten, eine Delikatesse ersten Ranges, schmeckt mir plötzlich nicht.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddelikatesse
- deilkatesse
- deliaktesse
- delikaetsse
- delikatese
- delikateses
- delikateße
- delikatsese
- delikattesse
- delikkatesse
- deliktaesse
- delkiatesse
- dellikatesse
- dleikatesse
- edlikatesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Delikatesse - 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 "Delikatesse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).