Legalität
[leɡaliˈtɛːt]
The verdict
“Legalität” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #43,325. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,325
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eigenschaft, den geltenden Gesetzen zu entsprechen und damit gesetzeskonform, rechtmäßig (legal) zu sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-legalitat · Legalität · German
Legalität · rank #43,325 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,325
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lehrtätigkeit
Nearest frequency peer: Lehrtätigkeit (+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 „Legalität“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Landgut
Landgut
56,681 corpus weight
- Lastschrift
Lastschrift
56,679 corpus weight
- lax
lax
56,678 corpus weight
- Legalität
Legalität
56,676 corpus weight
- Lehrtätigke…
Lehrtätigkeit
56,675 corpus weight
- leuchtete
leuchtete
56,673 corpus weight
What this shows „Legalität“ 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 | Legalität |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leɡaliˈtɛːt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Legalität“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Legalität (IPA [leɡaliˈtɛːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,325 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Eigenschaft, den geltenden Gesetzen zu entsprechen und damit gesetzeskonform, rechtmäßig (legal) zu sein".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Legalität, with forms such as "elgalität", "leaglität", and "legailtät". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Loyalität", "Lokalität", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is Legalität, spelled L-E-G-A-L-I-T-Ä-T.
Definition
- 1Eigenschaft, den geltenden Gesetzen zu entsprechen und damit gesetzeskonform, rechtmäßig (legal) zu sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Legalität appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bevor auf mögliche Konflikte zwischen Legalität und (moralischer) Legitimität eingegangen wird, ist es erforderlich, das Verhältnis zwischen Recht und Moral zu klären.“
Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Grauzone am Rande der Legalität.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgalität
- leaglität
- legailtät
- legalittä
- legalittät
- legalitätt
- legaliätt
- legallität
- legaltiät
- leggalität
- leglaität
- lgealität
- llegalität
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Legalität - 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 "Legalität", 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).