Drahtzieher
[ˈdʁaːtˌt͡siːɐ]
The verdict
“Drahtzieher” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,265. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,265
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemand, der aus Metall mit Hilfe von Ziehmaschinen Draht herstellt
Corpus desk
Index DE-drahtzieher · Drahtzieher · German
Drahtzieher · rank #36,265 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,265
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH draft
Nearest frequency peer: draft (-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 „Drahtzieher“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- dig
dig
63,740 corpus weight
- draft
draft
63,737 corpus weight
- Drahtzieher
Drahtzieher
63,736 corpus weight
- drohender
drohender
63,734 corpus weight
- drückten
drückten
63,733 corpus weight
- durchgehend…
durchgehenden
63,732 corpus weight
What this shows „Drahtzieher“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Drahtzieher |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdʁaːtˌt͡siːɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #36,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Drahtzieher“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Drahtzieher (IPA [ˈdʁaːtˌt͡siːɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,265 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Drahtzieher, with forms such as "darhtzieher", "ddrahtzieher", and "drahhtzieher". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Drahtzieher, spelled D-R-A-H-T-Z-I-E-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1jemand, der aus Metall mit Hilfe von Ziehmaschinen Draht herstellt
- 2jemand, der im Hintergrund Entscheidungen trifft und (oft ungesetzliche) Aktionen plant, aber nicht als Verantwortlicher zu erkennen ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Drahtzieher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die gute Qualität des Drahts lässt auf einen geschulten Drahtzieher schließen.
„Der Drahtzieher sitzt dabei auf einer Schaukel, um mit der Schwingbewegung mehr Kraft zu erzeugen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- darhtzieher
- ddrahtzieher
- drahhtzieher
- drahtizeher
- drahttzieher
- drahtzeiher
- drahtzieehr
- drahtzieherr
- drahtziehher
- drahtziehre
- drahtziheer
- drahtzzieher
- drahztieher
- drathzieher
- drhatzieher
- drrahtzieher
- rdahtzieher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Drahtzieher - 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 "Drahtzieher", 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 (17 here; floor ≥5).