instinktiv
[ɪnstɪŋkˈtiːf]
The verdict
“instinktiv” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,640. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,640
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einem Trieb, angeborenen Mechanismen folgend
Corpus desk
Index DE-instinktiv · instinktiv · German
instinktiv · rank #29,640 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,640
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Instabilität
Nearest frequency peer: Instabilität (-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 „instinktiv“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- inaktiv
inaktiv
70,364 corpus weight
- inspirierte
inspirierte
70,363 corpus weight
- Instabilität
Instabilität
70,362 corpus weight
- instinktiv
instinktiv
70,361 corpus weight
- Instruktion…
Instruktionen
70,360 corpus weight
- integrierter
integrierter
70,359 corpus weight
What this shows „instinktiv“ 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 | instinktiv |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɪnstɪŋkˈtiːf] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „instinktiv“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around instinktiv (IPA [ɪnstɪŋkˈtiːf]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,640 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 instinktiv, with forms such as "innstinktiv", "insitnktiv", and "insstinktiv". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Instinkt", "Instinkte", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 instinktiv, spelled I-N-S-T-I-N-K-T-I-V.
Definition
- 1einem Trieb, angeborenen Mechanismen folgend
- 2ohne langwieriges Nachdenken, dem Gefühl, einem inneren Impuls folgend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how instinktiv appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Vögel reagieren instinktiv, wenn ihnen etwas in der Behausung nicht zusagt.“
„Doch dann habe der Hund die Zweijährige attackiert. Die Mutter habe instinktiv reagiert und rettete ihrer Tochter so vermutlich das Leben.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstinktiv
- insitnktiv
- insstinktiv
- instikntiv
- instinkitv
- instinkktiv
- instinktivv
- instinkttiv
- instinktvi
- instinnktiv
- instintkiv
- instniktiv
- insttinktiv
- intsinktiv
- isntinktiv
- nistinktiv
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of instinktiv - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "instinktiv", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).