Etappe
[eˈtapə]
The verdict
“Etappe” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,077
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abschnitt, Stadium, Teilstrecke
Corpus desk
Index DE-etappe · Etappe · German
Etappe · rank #10,077 · 6 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,077
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Expedition
Nearest frequency peer: Expedition (+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 „Etappe“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- erfordern
erfordern
89,927 corpus weight
- erläutern
erläutern
89,926 corpus weight
- Etappe
Etappe
89,924 corpus weight
- Expedition
Expedition
89,923 corpus weight
- Fahnen
Fahnen
89,922 corpus weight
- Feldern
Feldern
89,921 corpus weight
What this shows „Etappe“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Etappe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eˈtapə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Etappe“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Etappe (IPA [eˈtapə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,077 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Etappe, with forms such as "eatppe", "etape", and "etapep". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Etappen", "ertappt", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Etappe, spelled E-T-A-P-P-E.
Definition
- 1Abschnitt, Stadium, Teilstrecke
- 2Nachschubgebiet hinter der Front
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Etappe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Eigentlich war Reinhold Messner allein zur finalen Etappe in die Todeszone aufgebrochen, ohne Seil, ohne Zelt, ohne Proviant; er wollte zum Gipfel und so schnell wie möglich wieder zurück.“
Auf der letzten Etappe des Rennens musste der Anfänger aufgeben.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eatppe
- etape
- etapep
- etpape
- ettappe
- teappe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Etappe - 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 "Etappe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).