Glatteis
[ˈɡlatˌʔaɪ̯s]
The verdict
“Glatteis” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #46,697. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,697
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gefrorenes Wasser auf öffentlichen Verkehrsflächen
Corpus desk
Index DE-glatteis · Glatteis · German
Glatteis · rank #46,697 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,697
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gladiator
Nearest frequency peer: Gladiator (-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 „Glatteis“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gierigen
gierigen
53,307 corpus weight
- giftiger
giftiger
53,306 corpus weight
- Gladiator
Gladiator
53,305 corpus weight
- Glatteis
Glatteis
53,304 corpus weight
- gleichgesch…
gleichgeschlechtlichen
53,303 corpus weight
- gleichzeiti…
gleichzeitigem
53,301 corpus weight
What this shows „Glatteis“ 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 | Glatteis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡlatˌʔaɪ̯s] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Glatteis“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Glatteis (IPA [ˈɡlatˌʔaɪ̯s]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,697 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "gefrorenes Wasser auf öffentlichen Verkehrsflächen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Glatteis, with forms such as "galtteis", "gglatteis", and "glateis". 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, "glatter", "glätten", "Glätte", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Glatteis, spelled G-L-A-T-T-E-I-S.
Definition
- 1gefrorenes Wasser auf öffentlichen Verkehrsflächen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Glatteis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als Unfallursache wurden Glatteis und überhöhte Geschwindigkeit festgestellt.
In den Morgenstunden ist mit Glatteis zu rechnen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- galtteis
- gglatteis
- glateis
- glatetis
- glatteiss
- glattesi
- glatties
- gllatteis
- gltateis
- lgatteis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Glatteis - 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 "Glatteis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).