Kaktus
[ˈkaktʊs]
The verdict
“Kaktus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,262. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,262
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sukkulente Pflanze aus der Familie Cactaceae
Corpus desk
Index DE-kaktus · Kaktus · German
Kaktus · rank #35,262 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,262
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH jüngstes
Nearest frequency peer: jüngstes (-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 „Kaktus“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Itzehoe
Itzehoe
64,743 corpus weight
- jedwede
jedwede
64,742 corpus weight
- jüngstes
jüngstes
64,740 corpus weight
- Kaktus
Kaktus
64,739 corpus weight
- Kapellmeist…
Kapellmeister
64,738 corpus weight
- Karriereende
Karriereende
64,737 corpus weight
What this shows „Kaktus“ 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 | Kaktus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaktʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Kaktus“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Kaktus (IPA [ˈkaktʊs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,262 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kaktus, with forms such as "akktus", "kakktus", and "kaktsu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Kants", "kaltes", "Kultus", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Kaktus, spelled K-A-K-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1sukkulente Pflanze aus der Familie Cactaceae
- 2beliebige exotische sukkulente, kugelförmige, scheibenförmige, säulenförmige Pflanze (die in der Lage ist, viel Wasser zu speichern und meist mit Dornen bestückt ist)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kaktus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das natürliche Vorkommen der Kakteen ist auf den amerikanischen Kontinent beschränkt.“
Irgendwie witzig ist, dass man einen Kaktus Schwiegermutterstuhl nennt.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akktus
- kakktus
- kaktsu
- kakttus
- kaktuss
- kakuts
- katkus
- kkaktus
- kkatus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kaktus - 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 "Kaktus", 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).