imperial
[ɪmpəʁiˈaːl]
The verdict
“imperial” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #33,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,127
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Imperium betreffend, zum Imperium gehörend, Merkmale eines Imperiums aufweisend
Corpus desk
Index DE-imperial · imperial · German
imperial · rank #33,127 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,127
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Immo
Nearest frequency peer: Immo (-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 „imperial“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ignorierte
ignorierte
66,877 corpus weight
- illustrieren
illustrieren
66,876 corpus weight
- Immo
Immo
66,875 corpus weight
- imperial
imperial
66,874 corpus weight
- imposante
imposante
66,873 corpus weight
- Inka
Inka
66,871 corpus weight
What this shows „imperial“ 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 | imperial |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɪmpəʁiˈaːl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „imperial“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around imperial (IPA [ɪmpəʁiˈaːl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,127 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ein Imperium betreffend, zum Imperium gehörend, Merkmale eines Imperiums aufweisend".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for imperial, with forms such as "imeprial", "immperial", and "impeiral". 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, "Imperium", 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 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 imperial, spelled I-M-P-E-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1ein Imperium betreffend, zum Imperium gehörend, Merkmale eines Imperiums aufweisend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imperial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bauten wie das unter Agrippa begonnene Pantheon, in dem eine Statue des Prinzeps stand, oder das Augustusforum mit dem Marstempel vermittelten die imperiale Ideologie in Rom.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imeprial
- immperial
- impeiral
- imperail
- imperiall
- imperila
- imperrial
- impperial
- impreial
- ipmerial
- miperial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imperial - 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 "imperial", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).