Original
[oʁiɡiˈnaːl]
The verdict
“Original” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,983. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,983
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erste Fassung eines Textes, Bildes oder Ähnliches
Corpus desk
Index DE-original · Original · German
Original · rank #1,983 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,983
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Nürnberg
Nearest frequency peer: Nürnberg (-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 „Original“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- me
me
98,021 corpus weight
- Nase
Nase
98,020 corpus weight
- Nürnberg
Nürnberg
98,019 corpus weight
- Original
Original
98,018 corpus weight
- Pause
Pause
98,017 corpus weight
- Prinzip
Prinzip
98,016 corpus weight
What this shows „Original“ 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 | Original |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oʁiɡiˈnaːl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Original“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Original (IPA [oʁiɡiˈnaːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,983 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Original, with forms such as "oirginal", "orgiinal", and "origginal". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "originale", "originell", "Originals", 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 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 Original, spelled O-R-I-G-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1erste Fassung eines Textes, Bildes oder Ähnliches
- 2von einem Künstler geschaffenes, von anderen Leuten unangetastetes, unverändertes und nicht kopiertes Werk
- 3Person mit eigenartigen, auffälligen Charaktereigenschaften
- 4Modell für ein Gemälde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Original appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Übertragung des englischen Originals gestaltete sich in mancher Hinsicht schwierig, weil verschiedene grundlegende Begriffe der Kommunikationslehre keine semantisch einwandfreien deutschen Entsprechungen haben.“
„Eigil sagte, er würde die Briefe kopieren und ihm die Originale zurückschicken.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oirginal
- orgiinal
- origginal
- origianl
- originall
- originla
- originnal
- orignial
- oriignal
- orriginal
- roiginal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Original - 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 "Original", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).