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
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemand, der Befehle oder Anordnungen erteilt oder für etwas verantwortlich ist, besonders Führer eines Landes; Herrscher, Gebieter
Corpus desk
Index DE-imperator · imperator · German
imperator · rank #27,779 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,779
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH IMHO
Nearest frequency peer: IMHO (-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 „imperator“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Hühnern
Hühnern
72,225 corpus weight
- illegales
illegales
72,224 corpus weight
- IMHO
IMHO
72,223 corpus weight
- imperator
imperator
72,222 corpus weight
- improvisier…
improvisieren
72,221 corpus weight
- Industriell…
Industrieller
72,220 corpus weight
What this shows „imperator“ 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 | imperator |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „imperator“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around imperator, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,779 among 1,488 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imperator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nunc imperator populum appellat; turba non clamat, sed imperatorem audit.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "imperator", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).