Magnet
[maˈɡneːt]
The verdict
“Magnet” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,335. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,335
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ferromagnetischer Stoff oder Gegenstand, der die Eigenschaft hat, andere ferromagnetische Stoffe anzuziehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-magnet · Magnet · German
Magnet · rank #20,335 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,335
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH magister
Nearest frequency peer: magister (-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 „Magnet“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- lösch
lösch
79,669 corpus weight
- Machenschaf…
Machenschaften
79,668 corpus weight
- magister
magister
79,667 corpus weight
- Magnet
Magnet
79,666 corpus weight
- Malaria
Malaria
79,665 corpus weight
- Mandeln
Mandeln
79,664 corpus weight
What this shows „Magnet“ 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 | Magnet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈɡneːt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Magnet“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Magnet (IPA [maˈɡneːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,335 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Magnet, with forms such as "amgnet", "magent", and "maggnet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "magst", "mahnt", "Maine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Magnet, spelled M-A-G-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1ferromagnetischer Stoff oder Gegenstand, der die Eigenschaft hat, andere ferromagnetische Stoffe anzuziehen
- 2etwas oder jemand, der eine Anziehungskraft besitzt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Magnet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Magnet zieht Eisen an.
Besonders starke Magnete werden im Sinterverfahren aus seltenen Erden hergestellt, wie zum Beispiel Samarium-Cobalt oder Neodym-Eisen-Bor.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amgnet
- magent
- maggnet
- magnett
- magnnet
- magnte
- manget
- mganet
- mmagnet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Magnet - 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 "Magnet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).