Grat
[ɡʁaːt]
The verdict
“Grat” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,371. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,371
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schmaler Bergkamm, Bergrücken
Corpus desk
Index DE-grat · Grat · German
Grat · rank #24,371 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,371
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH grafische
Nearest frequency peer: grafische (-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 „Grat“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gliedert
gliedert
75,633 corpus weight
- goodbye
goodbye
75,632 corpus weight
- grafische
grafische
75,631 corpus weight
- Grat
Grat
75,630 corpus weight
- Grundbesitz
Grundbesitz
75,628 corpus weight
- Guru
Guru
75,627 corpus weight
What this shows „Grat“ 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 | Grat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡʁaːt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Grat“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Grat (IPA [ɡʁaːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,371 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Grat, with forms such as "gart", "ggrat", and "gratt". 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, "gut", "grün", "Graz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Grat, spelled G-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1schmaler Bergkamm, Bergrücken
- 2ein bei Trenn- oder Formverfahren entstehender scharfkantig hervorstehender Rand eines Werkstückes
- 3Schnittlinie zweier Dachflächen oder Gewölbeflächen
- 4schräg verlaufende Bindungslinie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Grat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir kletterten über den Grat zum Gipfel.
„Mount Anaka stieg jetzt vor ihm auf, Türmchen hinter Türmchen, Grat auf Grat.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gart
- ggrat
- gratt
- grrat
- grta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Grat - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Grat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).