Lektorat
[lɛktoˈʁaːt]
The verdict
“Lektorat” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,302. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,302
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stelle, die für die Vermittlung bestimmter Fertigkeiten zuständig ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-lektorat · Lektorat · German
Lektorat · rank #48,302 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,302
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Leibes
Nearest frequency peer: Leibes (-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 „Lektorat“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Lebenslust
Lebenslust
51,702 corpus weight
- Lehranstalt
Lehranstalt
51,701 corpus weight
- Leibes
Leibes
51,700 corpus weight
- Lektorat
Lektorat
51,699 corpus weight
- Lepra
Lepra
51,698 corpus weight
- liberales
liberales
51,696 corpus weight
What this shows „Lektorat“ 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 | Lektorat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lɛktoˈʁaːt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Lektorat“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Lektorat (IPA [lɛktoˈʁaːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,302 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lektorat, with forms such as "elktorat", "lekktorat", and "lekotrat". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Lektor", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Lektorat, spelled L-E-K-T-O-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Stelle, die für die Vermittlung bestimmter Fertigkeiten zuständig ist
- 2Abteilung, in der eingereichte Manuskripte überprüft und gegebenenfalls mit den Autoren zusammen überarbeitet werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lektorat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In den Studienfächern, in denen Sprachkenntnisse vermittelt werden müssen, sind meist Lektorate dafür zuständig.
„Das Lektorat Deutsch als Fremdsprache bietet über 40 verschiedene studienbegleitende Deutschkurse für ausländische Studierende, DoktorandInnen [sic], GastwissenschaftlerInnen [sic] und MitarbeiterInnen [sic] der Universität Göttingen an.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elktorat
- lekktorat
- lekotrat
- lektoart
- lektoratt
- lektorrat
- lektorta
- lektroat
- lekttorat
- letkorat
- lketorat
- llektorat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lektorat - 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 "Lektorat", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).