Effekt
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,109
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
Effekt is aGermannoun. It means: Wirkung, die einfach entsteht oder auch absichtlich herbeigeführt werden kann, wobei diese auch überraschend oder beeindruckend sein kann Pronounced [ɛˈfɛkt]. It ranks #3,109 in German word frequency. Often confused with Effekte and effektiv.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Effekt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛˈfɛkt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Effekt is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛˈfɛkt]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,109 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Effekt, with forms such as "efefkt", "efekt", and "effekkt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Effekte", "effektiv", "Effekten", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Effekt, spelled E-F-F-E-K-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Wirkung, die einfach entsteht oder auch absichtlich herbeigeführt werden kann, wobei diese auch überraschend oder beeindruckend sein kann
- 2Wirkung einer (sehr häufig visuellen) Umsetzung, die durch Technik oder Verfahren Betroffene überraschen und beeindrucken soll
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efefkt,efekt,effekkt,effektt,effetk,effket,fefekt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Effekt
Misspelling Variants of "Effekt"
Frequency rank: #3,109 in German
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