digital
[diɡiˈtaːl]
The verdict
“digital” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,109. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,109
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf der Datenübertragung oder Datenverarbeitung durch diskrete (meist elektrische oder elektromagnetische) Signale beruhend
Corpus desk
Index DE-digital · digital · German
digital · rank #4,109 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,109
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Daheim
Nearest frequency peer: Daheim (-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 „digital“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Ch
Ch
95,895 corpus weight
- Christus
Christus
95,894 corpus weight
- Daheim
Daheim
95,893 corpus weight
- digital
digital
95,892 corpus weight
- Dreck
Dreck
95,891 corpus weight
- dunklen
dunklen
95,890 corpus weight
What this shows „digital“ 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 | digital |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [diɡiˈtaːl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „digital“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around digital (IPA [diɡiˈtaːl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,109 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for digital, with forms such as "ddigital", "dgiital", and "diggital". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "digitale", "digitalen", "digitaler", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is digital, spelled D-I-G-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1auf der Datenübertragung oder Datenverarbeitung durch diskrete (meist elektrische oder elektromagnetische) Signale beruhend
- 2die Finger betreffend, mit dem Finger durchgeführt
- 3(Daten) mit Ziffern und Zahlen darstellend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how digital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei der digitalen Übertragung von Bild und Ton (Fernsehen, Hörfunk, Telefonie) werden Bildpunkte und Schalldruck durch Zahlen dargestellt, diese wiederum durch elektrische oder optische Größen, die einen Mindestabstand haben, so dass kleine Abweichungen sicher korrigiert werden und sich nicht akkumulieren können.
„Nach Absaugen des Bluts wird eine aktive Blutungsquelle zunächst digital durch Auflegen eines oder mehrerer Finger komprimiert.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddigital
- dgiital
- diggital
- digiatl
- digitall
- digitla
- digittal
- digtial
- diigtal
- idgital
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of digital - 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 "digital", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).