Lehrkraft
[ˈleːɐ̯ˌkʁaft]
The verdict
“Lehrkraft” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,175
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die Lehrveranstaltungen durchführt; jemand, der unterrichtet
Corpus desk
Index DE-lehrkraft · Lehrkraft · German
Lehrkraft · rank #30,175 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,175
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH lebenswert
Nearest frequency peer: lebenswert (-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 „Lehrkraft“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Laube
Laube
69,830 corpus weight
- lebenswert
lebenswert
69,827 corpus weight
- Lehrkraft
Lehrkraft
69,826 corpus weight
- leidenschaf…
leidenschaftlichen
69,825 corpus weight
- Leistungsst…
Leistungssteigerung
69,824 corpus weight
- Leiters
Leiters
69,823 corpus weight
What this shows „Lehrkraft“ 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 | Lehrkraft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈleːɐ̯ˌkʁaft] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Lehrkraft“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Lehrkraft (IPA [ˈleːɐ̯ˌkʁaft]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,175 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die Lehrveranstaltungen durchführt; jemand, der unterrichtet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lehrkraft, with forms such as "elhrkraft", "lehhrkraft", and "lehkrraft". 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, "Lehrkräfte", "Lehrkräften", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Lehrkraft, spelled L-E-H-R-K-R-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die Lehrveranstaltungen durchführt; jemand, der unterrichtet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lehrkraft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Volkshochschule sucht eine Lehrkraft für Italienisch.
Wenn der Rechtsanspruch [auf Ganztagsbetreuung von Schülern in Schulen] umgesetzt werden soll, bräuchte Deutschland bis zum Schuljahr 2025/2026 zusätzlich 102.000 Lehrkräfte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elhrkraft
- lehhrkraft
- lehkrraft
- lehrkarft
- lehrkkraft
- lehrkrafft
- lehrkraftt
- lehrkratf
- lehrkrfat
- lehrkrraft
- lehrrkaft
- lehrrkraft
- lerhkraft
- lherkraft
- llehrkraft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lehrkraft - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Lehrkraft", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).