Legat
[leˈɡaːt]
The verdict
“Legat” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,255
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - römischer Gesandter im Range eines Unterfeldherrn
Corpus desk
Index DE-legat · Legat · German
Legat · rank #38,255 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,255
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH legalisieren
Nearest frequency peer: legalisieren (-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 „Legat“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Lebensabend
Lebensabend
61,749 corpus weight
- Lebensgrund…
Lebensgrundlage
61,748 corpus weight
- legalisieren
legalisieren
61,747 corpus weight
- Legat
Legat
61,746 corpus weight
- Leitmotiv
Leitmotiv
61,745 corpus weight
- Lerner
Lerner
61,744 corpus weight
What this shows „Legat“ 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 | Legat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leˈɡaːt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Legat“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Legat (IPA [leˈɡaːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,255 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Legat, with forms such as "elgat", "leagt", and "legatt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "let", "legt", "liga", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Legat, spelled L-E-G-A-T.
Definition
- 1römischer Gesandter im Range eines Unterfeldherrn
- 2päpstlicher Gesandter (oft ein Kardinal mit einem päpstlichen Sonderauftrag)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Legat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Kommando führte ein oft aus politischen Gründen bestimmter Legat, dem sechs (zumeist sehr junge) Militärtribunen als Legionsstabsoffiziere beigegeben wurden.“
„Unter den Führern dieser Schar befanden sich Markgraf Albrecht und Bischof Anselm von Havelberg als päpstlicher Legat.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgat
- leagt
- legatt
- leggat
- legta
- lgeat
- llegat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Legat - 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 "Legat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).