Karte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,203
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Karte is aGermannoun. It means: ein handlicher, planer, steifer aber nicht starrer, meist rechteckiger Gegenstand aus Karton, Pappe, Papier, Kunststoff, allenfalls Holz oder Metall Pronounced [ˈkaʁtə]. It ranks #1,203 in German word frequency. Often confused with kat and Kurt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Karte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaʁtə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Karte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaʁtə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,203 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Karte, with forms such as "akrte", "karet", and "karrte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kat", "Kurt", "Käse", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Karte, spelled K-A-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein handlicher, planer, steifer aber nicht starrer, meist rechteckiger Gegenstand aus Karton, Pappe, Papier, Kunststoff, allenfalls Holz oder Metall
- 2Kurzform für viele zusammengesetzte Substantive mit -karte im Sinne von ^([1]) als zweitem Bestandteil, wie etwa Eintrittskarte, Fahrkarte, Landkarte, Postkarte, Speisekarte, Spielkarte, Visitenkarte
- 3eine Karte im Sinne von [1], mit dem Schieds- und Kampfrichter während eines Spiels den Spielern Strafen androhen (gelbe Karte), beziehungsweise deren Verhängung signalisieren (rote Karte)
- 4Bauteil für einen Rechner
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: akrte,karet,karrte,kartte,katre,kkarte,krate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Karte"
Frequency rank: #1,203 in German
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Nearby German words
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