gekauft
[ɡəˈkaʊ̯ft]
The verdict
“gekauft” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,451. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,451
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs kaufen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gekauft · gekauft · German
gekauft · rank #1,451 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,451
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gegensatz
Nearest frequency peer: Gegensatz (-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 „gekauft“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Familien
Familien
98,553 corpus weight
- Geburtstag
Geburtstag
98,552 corpus weight
- Gegensatz
Gegensatz
98,551 corpus weight
- gekauft
gekauft
98,550 corpus weight
- grundsätzli…
grundsätzlich
98,549 corpus weight
- Hände
Hände
98,548 corpus weight
What this shows „gekauft“ 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 | gekauft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈkaʊ̯ft] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gekauft“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gekauft (IPA [ɡəˈkaʊ̯ft]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,451 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs kaufen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gekauft, with forms such as "egkauft", "geakuft", and "gekafut". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gekürt", "geprüft", "geklaut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is gekauft, spelled G-E-K-A-U-F-T.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs kaufen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egkauft
- geakuft
- gekafut
- gekaufft
- gekauftt
- gekautf
- gekkauft
- gekuaft
- ggekauft
- gkeauft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gekauft - 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 "gekauft", 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).