inkompetent
[ˈɪnkɔmpəˌtɛnt]
The verdict
“inkompetent” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,188
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht kompetent, an Erfahrung mangelnd
Corpus desk
Index DE-inkompetent · inkompetent · German
inkompetent · rank #34,188 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,188
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH imposanten
Nearest frequency peer: imposanten (-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 „inkompetent“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Ilm
Ilm
65,816 corpus weight
- Imitation
Imitation
65,815 corpus weight
- imposanten
imposanten
65,814 corpus weight
- inkompetent
inkompetent
65,813 corpus weight
- Innenleben
Innenleben
65,812 corpus weight
- innersten
innersten
65,811 corpus weight
What this shows „inkompetent“ 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 | inkompetent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɪnkɔmpəˌtɛnt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #34,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „inkompetent“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around inkompetent (IPA [ˈɪnkɔmpəˌtɛnt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,188 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "nicht kompetent, an Erfahrung mangelnd".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for inkompetent, with forms such as "iknompetent", "inkkompetent", and "inkmopetent". 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, "Inkompetenz", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is inkompetent, spelled I-N-K-O-M-P-E-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1nicht kompetent, an Erfahrung mangelnd
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inkompetent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Britrocker hatten ihre Majorfirma EMI mit dem Vorwurf verlassen, diese sei musikalisch inkompetent.“
„Die Vorgesetzten lassen Dich ständig spüren, dass sie Dich für inkompetent halten und lassen Dein Selbstwertgefühl immer kleiner werden.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iknompetent
- inkkompetent
- inkmopetent
- inkomeptent
- inkommpetent
- inkompeetnt
- inkompetennt
- inkompetentt
- inkompetetn
- inkompetnet
- inkompettent
- inkomppetent
- inkompteent
- inkopmetent
- innkompetent
- inokmpetent
- nikompetent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inkompetent - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).