Illustration
[ɪlustʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]
The verdict
“Illustration” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,945. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,945
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine bildliche Darstellung, die eine schriftliche Beschreibung ergänzt
Corpus desk
Index DE-illustration · Illustration · German
Illustration · rank #17,945 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,945
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH illegaler
Nearest frequency peer: illegaler (-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 „Illustration“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Hündin
Hündin
82,059 corpus weight
- Identitäten
Identitäten
82,058 corpus weight
- illegaler
illegaler
82,057 corpus weight
- Illustration
Illustration
82,056 corpus weight
- inakzeptabel
inakzeptabel
82,055 corpus weight
- interessiere
interessiere
82,054 corpus weight
What this shows „Illustration“ 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 | Illustration |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪlustʁaˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #17,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Illustration“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Illustration (IPA [ɪlustʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,945 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Illustration, with forms such as "illsutration", "illusrtation", and "illusstration". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Illustrator", "Illustrationen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Illustration, spelled I-L-L-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1eine bildliche Darstellung, die eine schriftliche Beschreibung ergänzt
- 2Veranschaulichung, Erläuterung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Illustration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die vielen Illustrationen im Buch machen das Lesen sehr kurzweilig.
„In den Katalog des Merlin Verlags gelangten allerdings über hundert Illustrationen, darunter farbige Radierungen zu Gedichten von Charles Bukowski.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illsutration
- illusrtation
- illusstration
- illustartion
- illustraiton
- illustratino
- illustrationn
- illustratoin
- illustrattion
- illustrration
- illustrtaion
- illusttration
- illutsration
- ilulstration
- ilustration
- lilustration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Illustration - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Illustration", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).