Glatze
[ˈɡlat͡sə]
The verdict
“Glatze” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,569. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,569
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - haarlose Stelle des normalerweise behaarten Teils des Kopfes
Corpus desk
Index DE-glatze · Glatze · German
Glatze · rank #18,569 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,569
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gewerbegebiet
Nearest frequency peer: Gewerbegebiet (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Glatze”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Geschlechte…
Geschlechtern
81,435 corpus weight
- geschult
geschult
81,434 corpus weight
- Gewerbegebi…
Gewerbegebiet
81,433 corpus weight
- Glatze
Glatze
81,432 corpus weight
- Heiligkeit
Heiligkeit
81,431 corpus weight
- Hengst
Hengst
81,430 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Glatze” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Glatze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡlat͡sə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Glatze” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Glatze (IPA [ˈɡlat͡sə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,569 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Glatze, with forms such as "galtze", "gglatze", and "glatez". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Götze", "Glaube", "Glotze", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Glatze, spelled G-L-A-T-Z-E.
Definition
- 1haarlose Stelle des normalerweise behaarten Teils des Kopfes
- 2Person der Skinheadbewegung, die die Kopfbehaarung ziemlich kurz oder ganz entfernt hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Glatze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seit ich ihn kenne, hat unser Pfarrer eine Glatze.
„Auf seiner Glatze glitzerten Schweißperlen, doch falls er sie spürte, störten sie ihn nicht.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- galtze
- gglatze
- glatez
- glattze
- glatzze
- glazte
- gllatze
- gltaze
- lgatze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Glatze - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Glatze", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Glatze". Here's where to go from here.
- "Glatze" maps to 17 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Götze". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #18,569 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "G" letter cohort. G–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.