Diktat
[dɪkˈtaːt]
The verdict
“Diktat” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #33,530. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,530
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Text, der von einer Person langsam gesprochen und von einer anderen Person wörtlich mitgeschrieben wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-diktat · Diktat · German
Diktat · rank #33,530 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,530
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH digitalisiert
Nearest frequency peer: digitalisiert (-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 „Diktat“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Dialekten
Dialekten
66,474 corpus weight
- Diehl
Diehl
66,473 corpus weight
- digitalisie…
digitalisiert
66,472 corpus weight
- Diktat
Diktat
66,471 corpus weight
- diktieren
diktieren
66,470 corpus weight
- Dip
Dip
66,469 corpus weight
What this shows „Diktat“ 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 | Diktat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɪkˈtaːt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Diktat“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Diktat (IPA [dɪkˈtaːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,530 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Diktat, with forms such as "ddiktat", "dikatt", and "dikktat". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Diktatur", "Diktator", "Diät", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Diktat, spelled D-I-K-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1ein Text, der von einer Person langsam gesprochen und von einer anderen Person wörtlich mitgeschrieben wird
- 2das langsame Sprechen eines Textes, den ein anderer wörtlich mitschreibt
- 3ein Zwang, dem man nichts entgegensetzen kann; etwas das jemandem ohne die Möglichkeit, sich zu widersetzen, befohlen wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Diktat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In der Schule mussten wir heute ein Diktat schreiben.
„Doch ihre Rechtschreibung ist mangelhaft, und so muss sie den ganzen Sommer über Diktate üben.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiktat
- dikatt
- dikktat
- diktatt
- diktta
- dikttat
- ditkat
- dkitat
- idktat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Diktat - 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 "Diktat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).