draft
[dʁaːft]
The verdict
“draft” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #36,264 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #36,264
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs draften
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 | draft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [dʁaːft] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “draft” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for draft is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dʁaːft]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,264 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs draften".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for draft, with forms such as "darft", "ddraft", and "drafft". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dran", "Duft", "drag", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is draft, spelled D-R-A-F-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs draften
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: darft,ddraft,drafft,draftt,dratf,drfat,drraft,rdaft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of draft - 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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Using “draft”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-R-A-F-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [dʁaːft] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “dran” - see the side-by-side comparison. draft vs dran
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.