kontern
[ˈkɔntɐn]
The verdict
“kontern” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,197. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,197
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Rede oder Maßnahme mit Gegenrede oder -maßnahmen beantworten
Corpus desk
Index DE-kontern · kontern · German
kontern · rank #29,197 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,197
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kontaktaufnah…
Nearest frequency peer: Kontaktaufnahme (-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 „kontern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Kommissare
Kommissare
70,807 corpus weight
- Kontaktaufn…
Kontaktaufnahme
70,805 corpus weight
- kontern
kontern
70,804 corpus weight
- Kontrabass
Kontrabass
70,803 corpus weight
- Korpus
Korpus
70,802 corpus weight
- kreuzt
kreuzt
70,801 corpus weight
What this shows „kontern“ 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 | kontern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkɔntɐn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „kontern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around kontern (IPA [ˈkɔntɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,197 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for kontern, with forms such as "kkontern", "knotern", and "konetrn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Köter", "kosten", "kontor", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is kontern, spelled K-O-N-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1eine Rede oder Maßnahme mit Gegenrede oder -maßnahmen beantworten
- 2den Gegner im Angriff abfangen, um dann zügig den Angreifer mit gezielten Gegenschlägen zu überraschen
- 3ein Druckbild umkehren
- 4eine weitere Mutter auf eine Schraube drehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kontern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Vorhaltungen konterte er mit entlastenden Daten.
Die Mannschaft konterte das Gegentor nach wenigen Minuten mit einem eigenen Treffer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kkontern
- knotern
- konetrn
- konntern
- kontenr
- konternn
- konterrn
- kontren
- konttern
- kotnern
- okntern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kontern - 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 "kontern", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).