Karate
[kaˈʁaːtə]
The verdict
“Karate” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,336. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,336
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - waffenlose Kampf- oder Verteidigungskunst
Corpus desk
Index DE-karate · Karate · German
Karate · rank #14,336 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,336
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kanadischen
Nearest frequency peer: kanadischen (-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 „Karate“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- IWF
IWF
85,668 corpus weight
- Jupiter
Jupiter
85,667 corpus weight
- kanadischen
kanadischen
85,666 corpus weight
- Karate
Karate
85,665 corpus weight
- Karls
Karls
85,664 corpus weight
- Kempten
Kempten
85,663 corpus weight
What this shows „Karate“ 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 | Karate |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈʁaːtə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Karate“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Karate (IPA [kaˈʁaːtə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,336 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "waffenlose Kampf- oder Verteidigungskunst".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Karate, with forms such as "akrate", "kaarte", and "karaet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kart", "Karte", "Karre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Karate, spelled K-A-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1waffenlose Kampf- oder Verteidigungskunst
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Karate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Leitspruch der Japan Karate Association lautet: „Nicht der Sieg noch die Niederlage im Kampf stehen beim Karate im Vordergrund - sondern die Vervollkommnung des Charakters.“
Wer sich mit Karate näher beschäftigt, trifft auf Begriffe wie: Obi, Uwagi, Zubon, Dōjō, Dan, Kyu, Bushidō, Taoismus, Dō, Kihon, Kumite, Randori und Kata.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akrate
- kaarte
- karaet
- karatte
- karrate
- kartae
- kkarate
- kraate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Karate - 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 "Karate", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).