Eigenkapital
[ˈaɪ̯ɡn̩kapiˌtaːl]
The verdict
“Eigenkapital” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,964
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - das einem Unternehmen zur Verfügung stehende Kapital, welches nicht von Dritten geliehen, sondern von den Gesellschaftern/Anteilseignern zur Verfügung gestellt und/oder durch Gewinn erwirtschaftet ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eigenkapital |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯ɡn̩kapiˌtaːl] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #16,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Eigenkapital” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Eigenkapital (IPA [ˈaɪ̯ɡn̩kapiˌtaːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,964 among 57,060 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "das einem Unternehmen zur Verfügung stehende Kapital, welches nicht von Dritten geliehen, sondern von den Gesellschaftern/Anteilseignern zur Verfügung gestellt und/oder durch Gewinn erwirtschaftet ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Eigenkapital, with forms such as "egienkapital", "eiegnkapital", and "eigeknapital". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct German form is Eigenkapital, spelled E-I-G-E-N-K-A-P-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1das einem Unternehmen zur Verfügung stehende Kapital, welches nicht von Dritten geliehen, sondern von den Gesellschaftern/Anteilseignern zur Verfügung gestellt und/oder durch Gewinn erwirtschaftet wird
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egienkapital
- eiegnkapital
- eigeknapital
- eigenakpital
- eigenkaiptal
- eigenkapiatl
- eigenkapitall
- eigenkapitla
- eigenkapittal
- eigenkappital
- eigenkaptial
- eigenkkapital
- eigenkpaital
- eigennkapital
- eiggenkapital
- eignekapital
- iegenkapital
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Eigenkapital - 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 “Eigenkapital”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-G-E-N-K-A-P-I-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaɪ̯ɡn̩kapiˌtaːl] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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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.