Ortschaft
[ˈɔʁtʃaft]
The verdict
“Ortschaft” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,358. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,358
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - zusammenhängendes Siedlungsgebiet
Corpus desk
Index DE-ortschaft · Ortschaft · German
Ortschaft · rank #12,358 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,358
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH operative
Nearest frequency peer: operative (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Ortschaft”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Norddeutsch…
Norddeutschland
87,646 corpus weight
- nutzbar
nutzbar
87,645 corpus weight
- operative
operative
87,644 corpus weight
- Ortschaft
Ortschaft
87,643 corpus weight
- Passanten
Passanten
87,641 corpus weight
- pauschal
pauschal
87,640 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ortschaft” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Ortschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɔʁtʃaft] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ortschaft” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Ortschaft (IPA [ˈɔʁtʃaft]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,358 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ortschaft, with forms such as "orrtschaft", "orstchaft", and "ortcshaft". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Ortschaften", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Ortschaft, spelled O-R-T-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1zusammenhängendes Siedlungsgebiet
- 2Teil einer Gemeinde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ortschaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nach 10 km taucht dann linker Hand eine Ortschaft auf.
„Doch auch die Bertinis waren auf seltsame Weise mit der Ortschaft verbunden.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orrtschaft
- orstchaft
- ortcshaft
- ortscahft
- ortscchaft
- ortschafft
- ortschaftt
- ortschatf
- ortschfat
- ortschhaft
- ortshcaft
- ortsschaft
- orttschaft
- otrschaft
- rotschaft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ortschaft - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ortschaft", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "Ortschaften". View pair
- 15 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #12,358 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "O" letter cohort. O–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.