Krampf
[kʁamp͡f]
The verdict
“Krampf” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,324. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,324
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ungewollte starke Muskelanspannung, die mit sehr großen Schmerzen verbunden sein kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-krampf · Krampf · German
Krampf · rank #21,324 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,324
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kontrahenten
Nearest frequency peer: Kontrahenten (-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 „Krampf“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Konkurrent
Konkurrent
78,680 corpus weight
- Kontinents
Kontinents
78,679 corpus weight
- Kontrahenten
Kontrahenten
78,678 corpus weight
- Krampf
Krampf
78,677 corpus weight
- Kreisverkehr
Kreisverkehr
78,676 corpus weight
- kulinarische
kulinarische
78,675 corpus weight
What this shows „Krampf“ 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 | Krampf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁamp͡f] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Krampf“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Krampf (IPA [kʁamp͡f]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,324 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Krampf, with forms such as "karmpf", "kkrampf", and "kramfp". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Krämpfe", "Kram", "Kamp", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Krampf, spelled K-R-A-M-P-F.
Definition
- 1ungewollte starke Muskelanspannung, die mit sehr großen Schmerzen verbunden sein kann
- 2erfolglose oder unverhältnismäßige Bemühung
- 3harte Arbeit, mühselige Anstrengung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Krampf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei einem Krampf hilft manchmal Massieren.
„Ich glaubte, sie geheilt zu haben; doch am nächsten Tage befielen die Krämpfe ihr Gehirn.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- karmpf
- kkrampf
- kramfp
- krammpf
- krampff
- kramppf
- krapmf
- krmapf
- krrampf
- rkampf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Krampf - 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 "Krampf", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).