Matte
[ˈmatə]
The verdict
“Matte” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,152. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,152
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine aus grobem Flechtwerk oder Gewebe aus Bast, Binsen, Schilf, Stroh, synthetischen Fasern oder Ähnlichem bestehende Unterlage oder dergleichen
Corpus desk
Index DE-matte · Matte · German
Matte · rank #15,152 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,152
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Marseille
Nearest frequency peer: Marseille (-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 „Matte“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- loszuwerden
loszuwerden
84,852 corpus weight
- Länderspiel
Länderspiel
84,851 corpus weight
- Marseille
Marseille
84,850 corpus weight
- Matte
Matte
84,849 corpus weight
- medical
medical
84,847 corpus weight
- Meditation
Meditation
84,846 corpus weight
What this shows „Matte“ 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 | Matte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmatə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Matte“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Matte (IPA [ˈmatə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,152 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Matte, with forms such as "amtte", "mate", and "matet". 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, "Maut", "Mett", "mitt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Matte, spelled M-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1eine aus grobem Flechtwerk oder Gewebe aus Bast, Binsen, Schilf, Stroh, synthetischen Fasern oder Ähnlichem bestehende Unterlage oder dergleichen
- 2eine aus weichem, federndem Material bestehende Unterlage, die mit einem festen Überzug umhüllt ist (zur Dämpfung von Sprüngen beim Turnen, als Fläche für die Kämpfe im Ringen oder dergleichen)
- 3lange Haare
- 4Prostituierte
- 5Bett
- 6(aus Bast oder Stroh gefertigte) grobe Decke, die als Umhang getragen wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Matte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Raum war mit Matten ausgelegt.
„Diese werden mit einem schwarzbraunen filzähnlichen Haartuch so bedeckt, daß die eine lange Seite ganz geöffnet bleibt; dann scheidet eine Mittelwand von demselben Stoff sie in zwei gleiche Teile: der eine ist gleichsam der Salon, da liegen Matten und einige Polster, welche nachts als Lagerstätte dienen, und der andre ist den häuslichen Geschäften gewidm…
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtte
- mate
- matet
- mmatte
- mtate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Matte - 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
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).