Informant

[ɪnfɔʁˈmant]

/[ɪnfɔʁˈmant]/ noun

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The verdict

“Informant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #41,254. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,254
frequency rank, German
1,488
“I” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person oder Institution/Organisation, die vertrauliche Informationen weitergibt

Corpus desk

Index DE-informant · Informant · German

Informant · rank #41,254 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #41,254
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,488
  • PHOTO-FINISH Indonesischen

Nearest frequency peer: Indonesischen (-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 „Informant“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „Informant“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Informant vs Informanten
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Informant
PropertyValue
HeadwordInformant
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɪnfɔʁˈmant]
Letters9
Frequency rank#41,254
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Informant“

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Informantliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Indonesischen“ (#41,253), „informative“ (#41,255), „indisches“ (#41,252). Unter 1,488 „I“-Lemmata liegt „Informant“ bei #41,254. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around Informant (IPA [ɪnfɔʁˈmant]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,254 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person oder Institution/Organisation, die vertrauliche Informationen weitergibt".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Informant, with forms such as "ifnormant", "infformant", and "infomrant". 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, "Informanten", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Informant, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Person oder Institution/Organisation, die vertrauliche Informationen weitergibt

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Informant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Die Mail endet mit dem Angebot, eine merkwürdige Geschichte über die Liaison von Informant und Redaktion könne exklusiv erworben werden.“
  2. „Einen seiner besten Informanten rühmt de Sade namentlich im Roman, es ist jener Giuseppe Iberti, der ihn besonders mit römischem Material versorgte und das mit vier Monaten Untersuchungshaft bei der päpstlichen Inquisition zu büßen hatte.“

This word in other languages

informant(English)informante(Español)indic(Français)delator(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ifnormant
  • infformant
  • infomrant
  • inforamnt
  • informannt
  • informantt
  • informatn
  • informmant
  • informnat
  • inforrmant
  • infromant
  • innformant
  • inofrmant
  • niformant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Informant - 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.

ifnormant2infformant1infomrant2inforamnt2informannt1informantt1informatn2informmant1
Edit distance from "Informant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Informant"?
"Informant" is spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ɪnfɔʁˈmant].
What does "Informant" mean?
As a noun, "Informant" means: Person oder Institution/Organisation, die vertrauliche Informationen weitergibt
What words are commonly confused with "Informant"?
"Informant" is commonly confused with "Informanten". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Informant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Informant" is [ɪnfɔʁˈmant]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Informant" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Informant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

indisches#41,252Hautkrebs#41,232kommendes#41,285gruppiert#41,220

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

Kaufleuten14 variantsGrunewald14 variantsKrefelder14 variantsGrabstätte14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list