Kanzlei
[kant͡sˈlaɪ̯]
The verdict
“Kanzlei” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,733. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,733
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Büro einer Behörde, eines Rechtsanwalts oder eines Notars
Corpus desk
Index DE-kanzlei · Kanzlei · German
Kanzlei · rank #8,733 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,733
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kaiserslautern
Nearest frequency peer: Kaiserslautern (-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 „Kanzlei“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- jetzige
jetzige
91,271 corpus weight
- Kaiserslaut…
Kaiserslautern
91,269 corpus weight
- Kanzlei
Kanzlei
91,268 corpus weight
- keins
keins
91,267 corpus weight
- Kerzen
Kerzen
91,266 corpus weight
- klares
klares
91,265 corpus weight
What this shows „Kanzlei“ 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 | Kanzlei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kant͡sˈlaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Kanzlei“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Kanzlei (IPA [kant͡sˈlaɪ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,733 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Büro einer Behörde, eines Rechtsanwalts oder eines Notars".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kanzlei, with forms such as "aknzlei", "kanlzei", and "kannzlei". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Kanzler", "Kanzlers", "Kanzlerin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Kanzlei, spelled K-A-N-Z-L-E-I.
Definition
- 1Büro einer Behörde, eines Rechtsanwalts oder eines Notars
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kanzlei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er betreibt seine Kanzlei gemeinsam mit zwei Kollegen.
„Mitte der achtziger Jahre des 15. Jahrhunderts übernahm er als Protonotar die Leitung der städtischen Kanzlei in Erfurt.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aknzlei
- kanlzei
- kannzlei
- kanzeli
- kanzlie
- kanzllei
- kanzzlei
- kaznlei
- kkanzlei
- knazlei
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kanzlei - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Kanzlei", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).