imperator
The verdict
“imperator” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,779
- frequency rank, German
- 17,725
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - jemand, der Befehle oder Anordnungen erteilt oder für etwas verantwortlich ist, besonders Führer eines Landes; Herrscher, Gebieter
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 | imperator |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “imperator” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around imperator, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,779 among 17,725 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for imperator, with forms such as "imeprator", "immperator", and "impeartor". 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, "Imperativ", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is imperator, spelled I-M-P-E-R-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1jemand, der Befehle oder Anordnungen erteilt oder für etwas verantwortlich ist, besonders Führer eines Landes; Herrscher, Gebieter
- 2jemand, der eine Armee befehligt
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imeprator,immperator,impeartor,imperaotr,imperatorr,imperatro,imperattor,imperrator,impertaor,impperator,impreator,ipmerator,miperator
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imperator - 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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Using “imperator”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is I-M-P-E-R-A-T-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “Imperativ” - see the side-by-side comparison. imperator vs Imperativ
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
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.