Inspiration
[ɪnspiʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]
The verdict
“Inspiration” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,386. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,386
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erhellende Eingebung, erhellender Einfall
Corpus desk
Index DE-inspiration · Inspiration · German
Inspiration · rank #9,386 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,386
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Inhalten
Nearest frequency peer: Inhalten (-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 „Inspiration“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Hirsch
Hirsch
90,618 corpus weight
- IHK
IHK
90,617 corpus weight
- Inhalten
Inhalten
90,616 corpus weight
- Inspiration
Inspiration
90,615 corpus weight
- irgendeinen
irgendeinen
90,614 corpus weight
- its
its
90,613 corpus weight
What this shows „Inspiration“ 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 | Inspiration |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪnspiʁaˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Inspiration“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Inspiration (IPA [ɪnspiʁaˈt͡si̯oːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,386 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Inspiration, with forms such as "innspiration", "inpsiration", and "insipration". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Inspirationen", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Inspiration, spelled I-N-S-P-I-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1erhellende Eingebung, erhellender Einfall
- 2Einziehen der Luft in die Lunge
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Inspiration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Problem beschäftigte mich schon lange; plötzlich hatte ich eine Inspiration, wie es zu lösen sein müsste.
„Walter Mehring war ein Berliner Schriftsteller durch und durch, aber seine beste Inspiration fand er in Paris.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innspiration
- inpsiration
- insipration
- inspiartion
- inspiraiton
- inspiratino
- inspirationn
- inspiratoin
- inspirattion
- inspirration
- inspirtaion
- insppiration
- inspriation
- insspiration
- isnpiration
- nispiration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Inspiration - 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 "Inspiration", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (16 here; floor ≥5).