Kommissar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,352
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Kommissar is aGermannoun. It means: mit Vollmachten ausgestatteter Regierungsbeauftragter Pronounced [kɔmɪˈsaːɐ̯]. It ranks #7,352 in German word frequency. Often confused with Kommissare and Kommissarin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kommissar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔmɪˈsaːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kommissar is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɔmɪˈsaːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,352 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kommissar, with forms such as "kkommissar", "kmomissar", and "komimssar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Kommissare", "Kommissarin", 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 Kommissar, spelled K-O-M-M-I-S-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit Vollmachten ausgestatteter Regierungsbeauftragter
- 2Dienstgrad bei Polizei und einigen anderen öffentlichen Diensten
- 3Polizist mit dem Dienstgrad Kommissar
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kkommissar,kmomissar,komimssar,komissar,kommisar,kommisasr,kommissarr,kommissra,kommißar,kommsisar,okmmissar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kommissar
Misspelling Variants of "Kommissar"
Frequency rank: #7,352 in German
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