Intendant
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,585
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Intendant is aGermannoun. It means: (künstlerischer) Leiter einer Oper, eines Theaters oder eines Rundfunksenders Pronounced [ɪntɛnˈdant]. Often confused with Intendanten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Intendant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪntɛnˈdant] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Intendant is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪntɛnˈdant]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,585 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Intendant, with forms such as "inetndant", "inntendant", and "intednant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Intendanten", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Intendant, spelled I-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(künstlerischer) Leiter einer Oper, eines Theaters oder eines Rundfunksenders
- 2oberster Verantwortlicher einer militärischen Verwaltungsbehörde
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetndant,inntendant,intednant,intenadnt,intendannt,intendantt,intendatn,intenddant,intendnat,intenndant,intnedant,inttendant,itnendant,nitendant
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Misspelling Variants of "Intendant"
Frequency rank: #18,585 in German
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