Gattung
[ˈɡatʊŋ]
The verdict
“Gattung” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,835. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,835
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Art im allgemeinen Sinn
Corpus desk
Index DE-gattung · Gattung · German
Gattung · rank #5,835 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,835
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Fürst
Nearest frequency peer: Fürst (-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 „Gattung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Fortschritte
Fortschritte
94,169 corpus weight
- Frist
Frist
94,168 corpus weight
- Fürst
Fürst
94,167 corpus weight
- Gattung
Gattung
94,166 corpus weight
- gelingen
gelingen
94,165 corpus weight
- genügt
genügt
94,164 corpus weight
What this shows „Gattung“ 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 | Gattung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡatʊŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gattung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Gattung (IPA [ˈɡatʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,835 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gattung, with forms such as "agttung", "gattnug", and "gattugn". 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. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Geltung", "getting", "Gattungen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Gattung, spelled G-A-T-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1eine Art im allgemeinen Sinn
- 2taxonomische Kategorie, die einander sehr nahestehende Arten zusammenfasst
- 3Klasse von literarischen Texten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gattung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Welcher Gattung ist dies denn zuzuordnen?
Der Leopard gehört der Gattung Panthera an.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agttung
- gattnug
- gattugn
- gattungg
- gattunng
- gatung
- gatutng
- ggattung
- gtatung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gattung - 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 "Gattung", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).