Kandidatur
[kandidaˈtuːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Kandidatur” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,320
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Antreten einer Person bei einer Wahl
Corpus desk
Index DE-kandidatur · Kandidatur · German
Kandidatur · rank #12,320 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,320
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Jutta
Nearest frequency peer: Jutta (-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 „Kandidatur“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- juckt
juckt
87,684 corpus weight
- juristisch
juristisch
87,683 corpus weight
- Jutta
Jutta
87,682 corpus weight
- Kandidatur
Kandidatur
87,681 corpus weight
- Kanten
Kanten
87,680 corpus weight
- Kennzeichnu…
Kennzeichnung
87,679 corpus weight
What this shows „Kandidatur“ 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 | Kandidatur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kandidaˈtuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Kandidatur“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Kandidatur (IPA [kandidaˈtuːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,320 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Antreten einer Person bei einer Wahl".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kandidatur, with forms such as "akndidatur", "kadnidatur", and "kanddiatur". 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, "Kandidat", "Kandidaten", "Kandidatin", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Kandidatur, spelled K-A-N-D-I-D-A-T-U-R.
Definition
- 1Antreten einer Person bei einer Wahl
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kandidatur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn ihm ein Bürger vorwirft, mit seiner dritten Kandidatur die demokratischen Regeln zu verraten, weil gegen seine Medienmacht und die Millionen keiner ankomme, antwortet er: ‚Du bist eine Schande.‘“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akndidatur
- kadnidatur
- kanddiatur
- kanddidatur
- kandiadtur
- kandidatru
- kandidattur
- kandidaturr
- kandidautr
- kandiddatur
- kandidtaur
- kaniddatur
- kanndidatur
- kkandidatur
- knadidatur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kandidatur - 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 "Kandidatur", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).