Pädagogik
The verdict
“Pädagogik” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #9,792 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,792
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Wissenschaft von der Ausbildung und Erziehung des Menschen, meist im Rahmen von Institutionen, wie zum Beispiel dem Kindergarten oder der Schule
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pädagogik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɛdaˈɡoːɡɪk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pädagogik” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Pädagogik is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɛdaˈɡoːɡɪk]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,792 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Wissenschaft von der Ausbildung und Erziehung des Menschen, meist im Rahmen von Institutionen, wie zum Beispiel dem Kindergarten oder der Schule".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pädagogik, with forms such as "pdäagogik", "ppädagogik", and "päadgogik". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Pädagogin", "Pädagoge", "Pädagogen", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Pädagogik, spelled P-Ä-D-A-G-O-G-I-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Wissenschaft von der Ausbildung und Erziehung des Menschen, meist im Rahmen von Institutionen, wie zum Beispiel dem Kindergarten oder der Schule
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pdäagogik,ppädagogik,päadgogik,pädaggogik,pädaggoik,pädagoggik,pädagogikk,pädagogki,pädagoigk,pädaoggik,päddagogik,pädgaogik,äpdagogik
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pädagogik — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Pädagogik"
Frequency rank: #9,792 in German
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Using “Pädagogik”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-Ä-D-A-G-O-G-I-K — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pɛdaˈɡoːɡɪk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Pädagogin” — see the side-by-side comparison. Pädagogik vs Pädagogin
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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