Knigge
[ˈknɪɡə]
The verdict
“Knigge” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,214
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (nicht zwingend schriftliches) Regelwerk oder Buch über Umgangsformen und Etikette in bestimmten Situationen
Corpus desk
Index DE-knigge · Knigge · German
Knigge · rank #34,214 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,214
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Knebel
Nearest frequency peer: Knebel (-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 „Knigge“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Kleinasien
Kleinasien
65,790 corpus weight
- Knebel
Knebel
65,788 corpus weight
- Knigge
Knigge
65,787 corpus weight
- kol
kol
65,786 corpus weight
- Konkurrenzk…
Konkurrenzkampf
65,785 corpus weight
- Konzerts
Konzerts
65,784 corpus weight
What this shows „Knigge“ 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 | Knigge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈknɪɡə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Knigge“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Knigge (IPA [ˈknɪɡə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,214 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(nicht zwingend schriftliches) Regelwerk oder Buch über Umgangsformen und Etikette in bestimmten Situationen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Knigge, with forms such as "kingge", "kknigge", and "kngige". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Kriege", "Könige", "knight", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct German form is Knigge, spelled K-N-I-G-G-E.
Definition
- 1(nicht zwingend schriftliches) Regelwerk oder Buch über Umgangsformen und Etikette in bestimmten Situationen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Knigge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nach dem Knigge für den klassischen Soulman müsste er jetzt den Mikrofonständer umreißen, in dramatischer Geste gen Himmel deuten und einen Gospelschrei hinlegen, der alle Köpfe schlagartig zur Kanzel hin ausrichtet: Predigtzeit!“
„Vielleicht sollte jemand einmal, vorsorglich für die künftigen Gelegenheiten, einen Knigge über das gute Benehmen in finsteren Zeiten und bei Weltuntergängen verfassen.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kingge
- kknigge
- kngige
- knige
- knigeg
- knnigge
- nkigge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Knigge - 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 "Knigge", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).