ideale
[ideˈʔaːlə]
The verdict
“ideale” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,966. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,966
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ideal
Corpus desk
Index DE-ideale · ideale · German
ideale · rank #5,966 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,966
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Horn
Nearest frequency peer: Horn (-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 “ideale”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Heer
Heer
94,038 corpus weight
- hl
hl
94,037 corpus weight
- Horn
Horn
94,036 corpus weight
- ideale
ideale
94,035 corpus weight
- Informatik
Informatik
94,034 corpus weight
- irgendjemand
irgendjemand
94,033 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ideale” 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 | ideale |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ideˈʔaːlə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “ideale” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ideale (IPA [ideˈʔaːlə]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,966 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ideale, with forms such as "dieale", "idaele", and "iddeale". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Idee", "ideas", "idole", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is ideale, spelled I-D-E-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ideal
- 2Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ideal
- 3Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ideal
- 4Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ideal
- 5Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ideal
- 6Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ideal
- 7Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ideal
- 8Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ideal
- 9Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs ideal
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dieale
- idaele
- iddeale
- ideael
- idealle
- idelae
- iedale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ideale - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "ideale", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "ideale". Here's where to go from here.
- "ideale" maps to 9 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Idee". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #5,966 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "I" letter cohort. I–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.