Ignoranz
[ɪɡnoˈʁant͡s]
The verdict
“Ignoranz” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,659
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - selbstverschuldete Unwissenheit, Beschränktheit
Corpus desk
Index DE-ignoranz · Ignoranz · German
Ignoranz · rank #15,659 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,659
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Igel
Nearest frequency peer: Igel (-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 „Ignoranz“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- hopp
hopp
84,345 corpus weight
- Händlern
Händlern
84,344 corpus weight
- Igel
Igel
84,343 corpus weight
- Ignoranz
Ignoranz
84,342 corpus weight
- Impfungen
Impfungen
84,341 corpus weight
- inspirieren
inspirieren
84,340 corpus weight
What this shows „Ignoranz“ 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 | Ignoranz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪɡnoˈʁant͡s] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Ignoranz“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Ignoranz (IPA [ɪɡnoˈʁant͡s]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,659 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ignoranz, with forms such as "ginoranz", "iggnoranz", and "ignnoranz". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Ignorant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Ignoranz, spelled I-G-N-O-R-A-N-Z.
Definition
- 1selbstverschuldete Unwissenheit, Beschränktheit
- 2das Ignorieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ignoranz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diese Ignoranz ist nicht zu ertragen.
„Ist das schon ein Zeichen von Demenz oder lediglich Ignoranz?“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ginoranz
- iggnoranz
- ignnoranz
- ignoarnz
- ignorannz
- ignoranzz
- ignorazn
- ignornaz
- ignorranz
- ignroanz
- igonranz
- ingoranz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ignoranz - 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 "Ignoranz", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).