Krawatte
[kʁaˈvatə]
The verdict
“Krawatte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,678
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schmales Stoffband, dass man um den Hals und Kragen bindet, meist zum Anzug getragen
Corpus desk
Index DE-krawatte · Krawatte · German
Krawatte · rank #15,678 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,678
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH krasser
Nearest frequency peer: krasser (-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 „Krawatte“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- koordiniert
koordiniert
84,326 corpus weight
- Kosmetik
Kosmetik
84,325 corpus weight
- krasser
krasser
84,324 corpus weight
- Krawatte
Krawatte
84,323 corpus weight
- Kreisstadt
Kreisstadt
84,322 corpus weight
- kürzen
kürzen
84,321 corpus weight
What this shows „Krawatte“ 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 | Krawatte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁaˈvatə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Krawatte“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Krawatte (IPA [kʁaˈvatə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,678 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "schmales Stoffband, dass man um den Hals und Kragen bindet, meist zum Anzug getragen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Krawatte, with forms such as "karwatte", "kkrawatte", and "kraawtte". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Krawatten", "Krawalle", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Krawatte, spelled K-R-A-W-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1schmales Stoffband, dass man um den Hals und Kragen bindet, meist zum Anzug getragen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Krawatte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zu diesem Anzug trage ich heute eine dunkelblaue Krawatte.
"Die xxx Krawatte sorgt für Farbenfreude im Leben des Mannes und drückt das Zeitgefühl durch Mode aus. Eine gut gewählte Krawatte reflektiert die positive Einstellung zum Leben."
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- karwatte
- kkrawatte
- kraawtte
- krawate
- krawatet
- krawtate
- krawwatte
- krrawatte
- krwaatte
- rkawatte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Krawatte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Krawatte", 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).