Insekt
[ɪnˈzɛkt]
The verdict
“Insekt” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,101
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mehrzelliges, gliederfüßiges Tier mit sechs Beinen (im erwachsenen Zustand)
Corpus desk
Index DE-insekt · Insekt · German
Insekt · rank #32,101 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,101
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Inneneinricht…
Nearest frequency peer: Inneneinrichtung (-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 „Insekt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- illustriert…
illustrierten
67,903 corpus weight
- inline
inline
67,902 corpus weight
- Inneneinric…
Inneneinrichtung
67,901 corpus weight
- Insekt
Insekt
67,900 corpus weight
- Isaak
Isaak
67,898 corpus weight
- Jahrbücher
Jahrbücher
67,897 corpus weight
What this shows „Insekt“ 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 | Insekt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪnˈzɛkt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Insekt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Insekt (IPA [ɪnˈzɛkt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,101 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mehrzelliges, gliederfüßiges Tier mit sechs Beinen (im erwachsenen Zustand)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Insekt, with forms such as "ineskt", "innsekt", and "insekkt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Insel", "Inseln", "intakt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Insekt, spelled I-N-S-E-K-T.
Definition
- 1mehrzelliges, gliederfüßiges Tier mit sechs Beinen (im erwachsenen Zustand)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Insekt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Käfer ist ebenso wie eine Libelle ein Insekt.
„In einer Höhe von etwa 1.000 m trifft man Insekten und Vögel, für die die Luft der reinste Highway ist.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ineskt
- innsekt
- insekkt
- insektt
- insetk
- insket
- inssekt
- isnekt
- nisekt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Insekt - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Insekt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).