Indikator
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,184
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Indikator is aGermannoun. It means: Hilfsmittel, das die Verfolgung intransparenter Abläufe ermöglicht, indem es das Erreichen oder Verlassen bestimmter Zustände anzeigt Pronounced [ɪndiˈkaːtoːɐ̯]. Often confused with Indikatoren and Indikation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Indikator |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪndiˈkaːtoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Indikator is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪndiˈkaːtoːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,184 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Indikator, with forms such as "idnikator", "inddikator", and "indiaktor". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Indikatoren", "Indikation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Indikator, spelled I-N-D-I-K-A-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hilfsmittel, das die Verfolgung intransparenter Abläufe ermöglicht, indem es das Erreichen oder Verlassen bestimmter Zustände anzeigt
- 2Umstand, Merkmal, was als Anzeichen für eine bestimmte Entwicklung, einen eingetretenen Zustand oder Ähnlichem dient
- 3‘Anzeiger’ für bestimmte chemische Reaktionen beziehungsweise physikalische Prozesse (19. Jahrhundert)
- 4Anzeigegerät ohne quantitative Aussage
- 5Gerät, das qualitativ oder quantitativ physikalische Werte anzeigt
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: idnikator,inddikator,indiaktor,indikaotr,indikatorr,indikatro,indikattor,indikkator,indiktaor,indkiator,inidkator,inndikator,nidikator
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Indikator
Misspelling Variants of "Indikator"
Frequency rank: #16,184 in German
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Nearby German words
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