Kantate
[kanˈtaːtə]
The verdict
“Kantate” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #41,269. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,269
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - „Formenfamilie von mehrsätzigen Werken für eine oder mehrere Gesangsstimmen und Instrumentalbegleitung“
Corpus desk
Index DE-kantate · Kantate · German
Kantate · rank #41,269 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,269
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kalkutta
Nearest frequency peer: Kalkutta (-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 „Kantate“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Jägermeister
Jägermeister
58,734 corpus weight
- Kalkutta
Kalkutta
58,733 corpus weight
- Kantate
Kantate
58,732 corpus weight
- kapituliert
kapituliert
58,731 corpus weight
- Kapitäne
Kapitäne
58,730 corpus weight
- Karamell
Karamell
58,729 corpus weight
What this shows „Kantate“ 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 | Kantate |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kanˈtaːtə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Kantate“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Kantate (IPA [kanˈtaːtə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,269 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "„Formenfamilie von mehrsätzigen Werken für eine oder mehrere Gesangsstimmen und Instrumentalbegleitung“".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kantate, with forms such as "akntate", "kanatte", and "kanntate". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Kante", "Karate", "Kantine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Kantate, spelled K-A-N-T-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1„Formenfamilie von mehrsätzigen Werken für eine oder mehrere Gesangsstimmen und Instrumentalbegleitung“
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kantate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Im Mittelalter nannte man auch ein Werk religiösen und auch andern Inhalts Kantate zum Gegensaß von Sonate (von sonare), die nur für Instrumente geschaffen war.“
„Die zehnteilige Kantate ‚O luce etterna‘, ein Auftragswerk des Ravenna Festivals, basiert auf ins Ukrainische übersetzten Versen aus Dantes ‚Paradiso‘ und einem Gedicht von Taras Schewtschenko, dem ukrainischen Nationaldichter des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akntate
- kanatte
- kanntate
- kantaet
- kantatte
- kanttae
- kanttate
- katnate
- kkantate
- knatate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kantate - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).