Palast
[paˈlast]
The verdict
“Palast” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,837. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,837
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein großes, meist repräsentatives Wohngebäude auf Burgen und in Schlössern; großes repräsentatives Gebäude für politische und wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten, künstlerische Vorhaben, Erholung, Sport un...
Corpus desk
Index DE-palast · Palast · German
Palast · rank #6,837 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,837
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Neuigkeiten
Nearest frequency peer: Neuigkeiten (-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 „Palast“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Mönchenglad…
Mönchengladbach
93,167 corpus weight
- nachvollzie…
nachvollziehen
93,166 corpus weight
- Neuigkeiten
Neuigkeiten
93,165 corpus weight
- Palast
Palast
93,164 corpus weight
- Persönlichk…
Persönlichkeiten
93,163 corpus weight
- point
point
93,162 corpus weight
What this shows „Palast“ 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 | Palast |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈlast] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Palast“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Palast (IPA [paˈlast]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,837 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ein großes, meist repräsentatives Wohngebäude auf Burgen und in Schlössern; großes repräsentatives Gebäude für politische und wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten, künstlerische Vorhaben, Erholung, Sport un...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Palast, with forms such as "aplast", "paalst", and "palasst". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "past", "passt", "Papst", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Palast, spelled P-A-L-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1ein großes, meist repräsentatives Wohngebäude auf Burgen und in Schlössern; großes repräsentatives Gebäude für politische und wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten, künstlerische Vorhaben, Erholung, Sport und Freizeitaktivitäten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Palast appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die farbenprächtigen Paläste sind dem Einfluss zweier konkurrierender Kulturen zu verdanken.“
„1204 dringen Kreuzfahrer in die Stadt ein, brennen ihr Zentrum nieder, plündern den kaiserlichen Palast und rauben zahlreiche kostbare Reliquien aus Kirchen und Klöstern.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplast
- paalst
- palasst
- palastt
- palats
- pallast
- palsat
- plaast
- ppalast
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Palast - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).