Kommando
[kɔˈmando]
The verdict
“Kommando” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,315. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,315
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Befehlsgewalt
Corpus desk
Index DE-kommando · Kommando · German
Kommando · rank #6,315 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,315
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Klamotten
Nearest frequency peer: Klamotten (-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 „Kommando“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Julius
Julius
93,689 corpus weight
- jüngste
jüngste
93,688 corpus weight
- Klamotten
Klamotten
93,687 corpus weight
- Kommando
Kommando
93,686 corpus weight
- kommentiert
kommentiert
93,685 corpus weight
- Kopie
Kopie
93,684 corpus weight
What this shows „Kommando“ 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 | Kommando |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔˈmando] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Kommando“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Kommando (IPA [kɔˈmando]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,315 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kommando, with forms such as "kkommando", "kmomando", and "komamndo". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "kommend", "Kommende", "Kommandos", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Kommando, spelled K-O-M-M-A-N-D-O.
Definition
- 1Befehlsgewalt
- 2kleine Gruppe von (speziell ausgebildeten) Soldaten
- 3Befehl
- 4Befehl
- 5Dienststelle ab Brigadeebene, die nachgeordnete Truppen führt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kommando appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wer hat hier das Kommando?
„Jetzt, im August 1572, stehen die weißen Soldaten unter dem Kommando von Francisco Barreto, eines Generals der königlichen Galeeren und früheren Gouverneurs von Portugiesisch-Indien, vor der ersten Schlacht ihres Feldzugs.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kkommando
- kmomando
- komamndo
- komando
- kommadno
- kommanddo
- kommanndo
- kommanod
- kommnado
- okmmando
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kommando - 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 "Kommando", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).