Gotik
[ˈɡoːtɪk]
The verdict
“Gotik” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #40,574. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,574
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Kunststil der mittelalterlichen europäischen Hochkultur des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts der besonders ausgeprägt in der kirchlichen Baukunst der Kathedralen hervortritt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gotik · Gotik · German
Gotik · rank #40,574 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,574
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gouvernement
Nearest frequency peer: gouvernement (+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 „Gotik“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gods
gods
59,429 corpus weight
- Gotik
Gotik
59,427 corpus weight
- gouvernement
gouvernement
59,426 corpus weight
- Gravur
Gravur
59,425 corpus weight
- Grundbegrif…
Grundbegriffe
59,424 corpus weight
- grusel
grusel
59,421 corpus weight
What this shows „Gotik“ 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 | Gotik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡoːtɪk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gotik“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Gotik (IPA [ˈɡoːtɪk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,574 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "der Kunststil der mittelalterlichen europäischen Hochkultur des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts der besonders ausgeprägt in der kirchlichen Baukunst der Kathedralen hervortritt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gotik, with forms such as "ggotik", "goitk", and "gotikk". 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, "GTI", "Gott", "Götz", 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 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 Gotik, spelled G-O-T-I-K.
Definition
- 1der Kunststil der mittelalterlichen europäischen Hochkultur des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts der besonders ausgeprägt in der kirchlichen Baukunst der Kathedralen hervortritt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gotik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im Stil der Gotik sind viele eindrucksvolle Kirchen errichtet worden.
"Die Gotik ist Resultat und Medium komplexer sozialökonomischer, politischer, kirchlich-religiöser und kulturell-geistiger Vorgänge innerhalb des Feudalismus als sozialökonomische Gesellschaftsformation."
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggotik
- goitk
- gotikk
- gotki
- gottik
- gtoik
- ogtik
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gotik - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).