Informatik
[ɪnfɔʁˈmaːtɪk]
The verdict
“Informatik” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,967
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Strukturwissenschaft, die sich mit der Information und deren automatischer Verarbeitung befasst
Corpus desk
Index DE-informatik · Informatik · German
Informatik · rank #5,967 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,967
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH ideale
Nearest frequency peer: ideale (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Informatik”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hl
hl
94,037 corpus weight
- Horn
Horn
94,036 corpus weight
- ideale
ideale
94,035 corpus weight
- Informatik
Informatik
94,034 corpus weight
- irgendjemand
irgendjemand
94,033 corpus weight
- Istanbul
Istanbul
94,032 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Informatik” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Informatik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪnfɔʁˈmaːtɪk] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Informatik” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Informatik (IPA [ɪnfɔʁˈmaːtɪk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,967 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Strukturwissenschaft, die sich mit der Information und deren automatischer Verarbeitung befasst".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Informatik, with forms such as "ifnormatik", "infformatik", and "infomratik". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "informativ", "Information", "informative", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Informatik, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-K.
Definition
- 1Strukturwissenschaft, die sich mit der Information und deren automatischer Verarbeitung befasst
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Informatik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"In der Informatik geht es genauso wenig um Computer wie in der Astronomie um Teleskope." (Edsger Dijkstra)
Die Inhalte der Theoretischen Informatik sind nicht so direkt anwendbar wie viele Inhalte der Grundvorlesungen über Programmierung, Rechnerarchitektur, Hardware, Datenstrukturen und den Entwurf effizienter Algorithmen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnormatik
- infformatik
- infomratik
- inforamtik
- informaitk
- informatikk
- informatki
- informattik
- informmatik
- informtaik
- inforrmatik
- infromatik
- innformatik
- inofrmatik
- niformatik
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Informatik - 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 "Informatik", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "Informatik" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "informativ". View pair
- 15 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #5,967 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "I" letter cohort. I–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.