gespalten
[ɡəˈʃpaltn̩]
The verdict
“gespalten” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,846. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,846
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - durch Spaltung in zwei oder mehrere Teile geteilt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gespalten · gespalten · German
gespalten · rank #13,846 · 14 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,846
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gesetzten
Nearest frequency peer: gesetzten (-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 „gespalten“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- geschuldet
geschuldet
86,158 corpus weight
- Geschäftsmo…
Geschäftsmodell
86,157 corpus weight
- gesetzten
gesetzten
86,156 corpus weight
- gespalten
gespalten
86,155 corpus weight
- getanzt
getanzt
86,154 corpus weight
- Gewand
Gewand
86,153 corpus weight
What this shows „gespalten“ 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 | gespalten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡəˈʃpaltn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gespalten“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around gespalten (IPA [ɡəˈʃpaltn̩]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,846 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for gespalten, with forms such as "egspalten", "gepsalten", and "gesaplten". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "gestalte", "gestalten", "gestaltet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 gespalten, spelled G-E-S-P-A-L-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1durch Spaltung in zwei oder mehrere Teile geteilt
- 2nicht eindeutig, uneinheitlich in Ansichten oder Meinungen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gespalten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Den Tag verbringen die unscheinbar gefärbten Nachtschwalben unbeweglich am Boden oder auf Ästen, nachts jagen sie Insekten, die mit dem kurzen, aber weit gespaltenen Schnabel gefangen werden.“
Viele Nationen haben heute zunehmend gespaltene Gesellschaften: die Briten und die Schotten wegen des Brexit, die Polen pro oder contra ihrer Regierung, ganz Europa wegen der Flüchtlinge, in den USA die Amen und die Reichen, etc, etc.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egspalten
- gepsalten
- gesaplten
- gespaletn
- gespallten
- gespaltenn
- gespaltne
- gespaltten
- gespatlen
- gesplaten
- gesppalten
- gesspalten
- ggespalten
- gsepalten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gespalten - 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 "gespalten", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).