Leitlinie
[ˈlaɪ̯tˌliːni̯ə]
The verdict
“Leitlinie” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,240. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,240
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - grundsätzliche Zielvorgabe
Corpus desk
Index DE-leitlinie · Leitlinie · German
Leitlinie · rank #34,240 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,240
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH leichtesten
Nearest frequency peer: leichtesten (-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 „Leitlinie“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- learn
learn
65,764 corpus weight
- lehn
lehn
65,763 corpus weight
- leichtesten
leichtesten
65,762 corpus weight
- Leitlinie
Leitlinie
65,761 corpus weight
- lew
lew
65,759 corpus weight
- Lobbyismus
Lobbyismus
65,757 corpus weight
What this shows „Leitlinie“ 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 | Leitlinie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaɪ̯tˌliːni̯ə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Leitlinie“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Leitlinie (IPA [ˈlaɪ̯tˌliːni̯ə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,240 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Leitlinie, with forms such as "elitlinie", "leiltinie", and "leitilnie". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Luftlinie", "Leitlinien", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Leitlinie, spelled L-E-I-T-L-I-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1grundsätzliche Zielvorgabe
- 2Bewegungsvorgabe, zum Beispiel die unterbrochene Fahrbahnmarkierung
- 3bestimmende Kurve einer geometrischen Form, zum Beispiel die Symmetrieachse eines Kegelschnitts
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Leitlinie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Es kann zwischen Empfehlungen, Leitlinien und Richtlinien unterschieden werden.“
„Das Internet wird derzeit als beste Quelle für die Information über Leitlinien angesehen.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elitlinie
- leiltinie
- leitilnie
- leitliine
- leitlinei
- leitlinnie
- leitllinie
- leitlniie
- leittlinie
- letilinie
- lietlinie
- lleitlinie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Leitlinie - 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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Leitlinie", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).