Festplatte
[ˈfɛstˌplatə]
The verdict
“Festplatte” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,473. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,473
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - magnetisches Speichermedium, bei dem Daten auf rotierenden Scheiben aus einem starren Material gespeichert werden; Kurzform von Festplattenlaufwerk
Corpus desk
Index DE-festplatte · Festplatte · German
Festplatte · rank #10,473 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,473
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH fertigen
Nearest frequency peer: fertigen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Festplatte”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Fahrgäste
Fahrgäste
89,531 corpus weight
- fame
fame
89,530 corpus weight
- fertigen
fertigen
89,529 corpus weight
- Festplatte
Festplatte
89,528 corpus weight
- geführte
geführte
89,527 corpus weight
- Gegebenheit…
Gegebenheiten
89,526 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Festplatte” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Festplatte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstˌplatə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Festplatte” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Festplatte (IPA [ˈfɛstˌplatə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,473 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "magnetisches Speichermedium, bei dem Daten auf rotierenden Scheiben aus einem starren Material gespeichert werden; Kurzform von Festplattenlaufwerk".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Festplatte, with forms such as "efstplatte", "fesptlatte", and "fesstplatte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Festplatten", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Festplatte, spelled F-E-S-T-P-L-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1magnetisches Speichermedium, bei dem Daten auf rotierenden Scheiben aus einem starren Material gespeichert werden; Kurzform von Festplattenlaufwerk
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Festplatte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moderne Festplatten haben Kapazitäten von über einem Terabyte.
„Unter dem Namen PiDrive kündigt Western Digital eine eigene Festplatte für den 35-Dollar-Computer an.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efstplatte
- fesptlatte
- fesstplatte
- festlpatte
- festpaltte
- festplate
- festplatet
- festpllatte
- festpltate
- festpplatte
- festtplatte
- fetsplatte
- ffestplatte
- fsetplatte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Festplatte - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Festplatte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "Festplatten". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,473 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "F" letter cohort. F–Z browse
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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.