Dieselmotor
[ˈdiːzl̩ˌmoːtoːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Dieselmotor” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,680. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,680
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verbrennungsmotor, der nach dem von Rudolf Diesel erdachten Prinzip arbeitet
Corpus desk
Index DE-dieselmotor · Dieselmotor · German
Dieselmotor · rank #38,680 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,680
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH diagonal
Nearest frequency peer: diagonal (-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 „Dieselmotor“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Deutlichkeit
Deutlichkeit
61,323 corpus weight
- diagonal
diagonal
61,322 corpus weight
- Dieselmotor
Dieselmotor
61,321 corpus weight
- Dieu
Dieu
61,320 corpus weight
- diffamieren
diffamieren
61,319 corpus weight
- diffuse
diffuse
61,318 corpus weight
What this shows „Dieselmotor“ 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 | Dieselmotor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdiːzl̩ˌmoːtoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #38,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Dieselmotor“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Dieselmotor (IPA [ˈdiːzl̩ˌmoːtoːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,680 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Verbrennungsmotor, der nach dem von Rudolf Diesel erdachten Prinzip arbeitet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dieselmotor, with forms such as "ddieselmotor", "deiselmotor", and "dieeslmotor". 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, "Dieselmotoren", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Dieselmotor, spelled D-I-E-S-E-L-M-O-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Verbrennungsmotor, der nach dem von Rudolf Diesel erdachten Prinzip arbeitet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dieselmotor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieselmotoren muss man vor dem Start vorglühen.
„Am Nachmittag sprang der Dieselmotor an, eine schwarze Wolke strich über die Pinasse hinweg, und als die Schiffsleute den lang gestreckten hölzernen Körper mit ihren Staken vom Ufer abdrückten, bemerkte ich ein erregtes Kribbeln im Bauch.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddieselmotor
- deiselmotor
- dieeslmotor
- diesellmotor
- dieselmmotor
- dieselmootr
- dieselmotorr
- dieselmotro
- dieselmottor
- dieselmtoor
- dieselomtor
- diesemlotor
- dieslemotor
- diesselmotor
- diseelmotor
- ideselmotor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dieselmotor - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Dieselmotor", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).