Gluten
[ɡluˈteːn]
The verdict
“Gluten” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #33,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,613
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein hauptsächlich aus Proteinen bestehendes Gemisch, das vorwiegend in traditionellen Getreidesorten vorkommt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gluten · Gluten · German
Gluten · rank #33,613 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,613
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gleichberecht…
Nearest frequency peer: gleichberechtigte (-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 „Gluten“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- giant
giant
66,391 corpus weight
- Gideon
Gideon
66,390 corpus weight
- gleichberec…
gleichberechtigte
66,389 corpus weight
- Gluten
Gluten
66,388 corpus weight
- Glücksfall
Glücksfall
66,387 corpus weight
- Gothaer
Gothaer
66,385 corpus weight
What this shows „Gluten“ 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 | Gluten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡluˈteːn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gluten“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Gluten (IPA [ɡluˈteːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,613 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ein hauptsächlich aus Proteinen bestehendes Gemisch, das vorwiegend in traditionellen Getreidesorten vorkommt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gluten, with forms such as "ggluten", "glluten", and "gltuen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gute", "guten", "gutes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Gluten, spelled G-L-U-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1ein hauptsächlich aus Proteinen bestehendes Gemisch, das vorwiegend in traditionellen Getreidesorten vorkommt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gluten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Reismehl eignet sich nicht zum Backen, da ihm das Gluten fehlt.“
„Eine wichtige Eigenschaft aller Glutene ist ihre ausgeprägte Resistenz gegenüber humanen Peptidasen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggluten
- glluten
- gltuen
- gluetn
- glutenn
- glutne
- glutten
- gulten
- lguten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gluten - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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).