Intendant
[ɪntɛnˈdant]
The verdict
“Intendant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,585
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (künstlerischer) Leiter einer Oper, eines Theaters oder eines Rundfunksenders
Corpus desk
Index DE-intendant · Intendant · German
Intendant · rank #18,585 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,585
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Inhalts
Nearest frequency peer: Inhalts (-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 „Intendant“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- impliziert
impliziert
81,419 corpus weight
- Inhalts
Inhalts
81,417 corpus weight
- Intendant
Intendant
81,416 corpus weight
- Israelis
Israelis
81,415 corpus weight
- Jacken
Jacken
81,414 corpus weight
- jahrelange
jahrelange
81,413 corpus weight
What this shows „Intendant“ 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 | 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) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Intendant“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Intendant (IPA [ɪntɛnˈdant]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,585 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Intendant, spelled I-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1(künstlerischer) Leiter einer Oper, eines Theaters oder eines Rundfunksenders
- 2oberster Verantwortlicher einer militärischen Verwaltungsbehörde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Intendant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Claus Peymann ist ein deutscher Theaterregisseur und derzeit Intendant des Berliner Ensembles.
„Doch früher oder später wird es auch die Intendanten von ARD und ZDF beschäftigen und ihnen eine neue Debatte über ihre Gebührenmilliarden bescheren.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetndant
- inntendant
- intednant
- intenadnt
- intendannt
- intendantt
- intendatn
- intenddant
- intendnat
- intenndant
- intnedant
- inttendant
- itnendant
- nitendant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Intendant - 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 "Intendant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).