Kriterien
[kʁiˈteːʁiən]
The verdict
“Kriterien” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,134. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,134
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Kriterium
Corpus desk
Index DE-kriterien · Kriterien · German
Kriterien · rank #4,134 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #4,134
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kontrollieren
Nearest frequency peer: kontrollieren (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Kriterien”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kindes
Kindes
95,870 corpus weight
- Knochen
Knochen
95,869 corpus weight
- kontrollier…
kontrollieren
95,868 corpus weight
- Kriterien
Kriterien
95,867 corpus weight
- Kämpfe
Kämpfe
95,866 corpus weight
- Laune
Laune
95,865 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Kriterien” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Kriterien |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁiˈteːʁiən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kriterien” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Kriterien (IPA [kʁiˈteːʁiən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,134 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kriterien, with forms such as "kirterien", "kkriterien", and "krietrien". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Kriterium", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Kriterien, spelled K-R-I-T-E-R-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Kriterium
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Kriterium
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Kriterium
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Kriterium
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kirterien
- kkriterien
- krietrien
- kriteiren
- kriterein
- kriterienn
- kriterine
- kriterrien
- kritreien
- kritterien
- krriterien
- krtierien
- rkiterien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kriterien - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Kriterien", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.