fontana
[fɔnˈtana]
The verdict
“fontana” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,897. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,897
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brunnen, Springbrunnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-fontana · fontana · German
fontana · rank #48,897 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,897
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fondue
Nearest frequency peer: Fondue (-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 „fontana“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Fock
Fock
51,106 corpus weight
- Fondue
Fondue
51,105 corpus weight
- fontana
fontana
51,104 corpus weight
- fortlaufend…
fortlaufenden
51,103 corpus weight
- Fremdenhass
Fremdenhass
51,102 corpus weight
- Fröschen
Fröschen
51,101 corpus weight
What this shows „fontana“ 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 | fontana |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɔnˈtana] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „fontana“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fontana (IPA [fɔnˈtana]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,897 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fontana, with forms such as "ffontana", "fnotana", and "fonatna". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fortan", "fortuna", "fontaine", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is fontana, spelled F-O-N-T-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Brunnen, Springbrunnen
- 2Quelle
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffontana
- fnotana
- fonatna
- fonntana
- fontaan
- fontanna
- fontnaa
- fonttana
- fotnana
- ofntana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fontana - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fontana", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).