Lokomotive
[lokomoˈtiːvə]
The verdict
“Lokomotive” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,032
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Antriebsmodul eines Zuges, Zugmaschine für Güter- oder Personenwagen
Corpus desk
Index DE-lokomotive · Lokomotive · German
Lokomotive · rank #24,032 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,032
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Liberalisieru…
Nearest frequency peer: Liberalisierung (-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 „Lokomotive“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Lernens
Lernens
75,972 corpus weight
- Liberalisie…
Liberalisierung
75,970 corpus weight
- Lokomotive
Lokomotive
75,969 corpus weight
- Lover
Lover
75,968 corpus weight
- lutschen
lutschen
75,967 corpus weight
- Länderspiele
Länderspiele
75,966 corpus weight
What this shows „Lokomotive“ 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 | Lokomotive |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lokomoˈtiːvə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Lokomotive“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Lokomotive (IPA [lokomoˈtiːvə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,032 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Antriebsmodul eines Zuges, Zugmaschine für Güter- oder Personenwagen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lokomotive, with forms such as "lkoomotive", "llokomotive", and "lokkomotive". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Lokomotiven", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Lokomotive, spelled L-O-K-O-M-O-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Antriebsmodul eines Zuges, Zugmaschine für Güter- oder Personenwagen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lokomotive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieser Zug hat aus Sicherheitsgründen sogar zwei Lokomotiven.
„Kommerzienrat Mahlhuber trank sein Bier aus bis auf die Nagelprobe, sprang aber gleich darauf, als die Lokomotive einen kleinen Pfiff tat, erschrocken in das Coupé zurück, solche Angst hatte er, dagelassen zu werden.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lkoomotive
- llokomotive
- lokkomotive
- lokmootive
- lokommotive
- lokomoitve
- lokomotiev
- lokomotivve
- lokomottive
- lokomotvie
- lokomtoive
- lokoomtive
- lookmotive
- olkomotive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lokomotive - 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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).