Donau
[ˈdoːnaʊ̯]
The verdict
“Donau” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,578. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,578
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mitteleuropäischer und südosteuropäischer Fluss, Strom, der im Schwarzwald entspringt, Deutschland, Österreich, die Slowakei, Ungarn, Kroatien, Serbien, Rumänien, Bulgarien, Moldawien und die Ukrai...
Corpus desk
Index DE-donau · Donau · German
Donau · rank #5,578 · 6 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,578
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Designer
Nearest frequency peer: Designer (-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 „Donau“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- derartige
derartige
94,426 corpus weight
- derer
derer
94,425 corpus weight
- Designer
Designer
94,424 corpus weight
- Donau
Donau
94,423 corpus weight
- Einzelner
Einzelner
94,421 corpus weight
- Einzug
Einzug
94,420 corpus weight
What this shows „Donau“ 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 | Donau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈdoːnaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Donau“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Donau (IPA [ˈdoːnaʊ̯]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,578 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mitteleuropäischer und südosteuropäischer Fluss, Strom, der im Schwarzwald entspringt, Deutschland, Österreich, die Slowakei, Ungarn, Kroatien, Serbien, Rumänien, Bulgarien, Moldawien und die Ukrai...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Donau, with forms such as "ddonau", "dnoau", and "doanu". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "done", "dota", "Döner", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Donau, spelled D-O-N-A-U.
Definition
- 1mitteleuropäischer und südosteuropäischer Fluss, Strom, der im Schwarzwald entspringt, Deutschland, Österreich, die Slowakei, Ungarn, Kroatien, Serbien, Rumänien, Bulgarien, Moldawien und die Ukraine durchfließt sowie zum Teil Grenzen zwischen diesen Staaten bildet, um im Donaudelta ins Schwarze Meer zu münden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Donau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Donau ist einer der längsten Ströme Europas.
„Die Regnitz und die Altmühl, die Nebenflüsse des Mains und der Donau, sollten durch einen schiffbaren Graben miteinander verbunden werden.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddonau
- dnoau
- doanu
- donnau
- donua
- odnau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Donau - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Donau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).