Natal
[ˈnaːtal]
The verdict
“Natal” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,349. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,349
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptstadt von Rio Grande do Norte in Brasilien
Corpus desk
Index DE-natal · Natal · German
Natal · rank #48,349 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,349
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Namenstag
Nearest frequency peer: Namenstag (-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 „Natal“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- mühsame
mühsame
51,656 corpus weight
- Nachschlag
Nachschlag
51,655 corpus weight
- Namenstag
Namenstag
51,653 corpus weight
- Natal
Natal
51,652 corpus weight
- nerve
nerve
51,650 corpus weight
- Neueinsteig…
Neueinsteiger
51,649 corpus weight
What this shows „Natal“ 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 | Natal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaːtal] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Natal“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Natal (IPA [ˈnaːtal]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,349 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Natal, with forms such as "antal", "naatl", and "natall". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "NATO", "Natur", "Notar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Natal, spelled N-A-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt von Rio Grande do Norte in Brasilien
- 2Ehemalige Kolonie und Provinz im Osten von Südafrika
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Natal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Natal im Nordosten Brasiliens ist die Hauptstadt des Bundesstaates Rio Grande do Norte.“
„Seit 1886 hatte der Goldbergbau in Transvaal zu einer derartigen wirtschaftlichen Überlegenheit dieser Republik in Südafrika geführt, dass die britischen Kolonien Natal und Kapkolonie abhängig zu werden drohten.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- antal
- naatl
- natall
- natla
- nattal
- nnatal
- ntaal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Natal - 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 "Natal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).