Duft
[dʊft]
The verdict
“Duft” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #8,850 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,850
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ein angenehmer Geruch, der sich verbreitet oder ausgebracht wird; organische oder chemische Verbindung
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 | Duft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dʊft] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Duft” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Duft is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dʊft]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,850 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ein angenehmer Geruch, der sich verbreitet oder ausgebracht wird; organische oder chemische Verbindung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Duft, with forms such as "dduft", "dfut", and "dufft". 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, "duo", "Dur", "Dus", 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 Duft, spelled D-U-F-T.
Definition
- 1ein angenehmer Geruch, der sich verbreitet oder ausgebracht wird; organische oder chemische Verbindung
Antonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dduft,dfut,dufft,duftt,dutf,udft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Duft - 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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Using “Duft”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-U-F-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [dʊft] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “duo” - see the side-by-side comparison. Duft vs duo
- 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.