Leiterin
[ˈlaɪ̯təʁɪn]
The verdict
“Leiterin” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,514. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,514
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weibliche Person, die in leitender Funktion tätig ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-leiterin · Leiterin · German
Leiterin · rank #10,514 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,514
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Kunststoff
Nearest frequency peer: Kunststoff (-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 „Leiterin“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
What this shows „Leiterin“ 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 | Leiterin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaɪ̯təʁɪn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Leiterin“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Leiterin (IPA [ˈlaɪ̯təʁɪn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,514 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "weibliche Person, die in leitender Funktion tätig ist".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Leiterin, with forms such as "eliterin", "leietrin", and "leiteirn". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Litern", "Leitern", "Leiters", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Leiterin, spelled L-E-I-T-E-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1weibliche Person, die in leitender Funktion tätig ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Leiterin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das gesamte Team wartete auf das Eintreffen der Leiterin.
„Eingeladen waren rund 170 Leiterinnen und Leiter unterschiedlichster Einrichtungen wie etwa Stiftungen, Museen oder Gedenkstätten.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eliterin
- leietrin
- leiteirn
- leiterinn
- leiterni
- leiterrin
- leitrein
- leitterin
- letierin
- lieterin
- lleiterin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Leiterin - 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 "Leiterin", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).