pastor
[pəsˈto]
The verdict
“pastor” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,438
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Hirte, der Schäfer
Corpus desk
Index DE-pastor · pastor · German
pastor · rank #8,438 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,438
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH passierte
Nearest frequency peer: passierte (-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 „pastor“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Outfit
Outfit
91,566 corpus weight
- Ozean
Ozean
91,565 corpus weight
- passierte
passierte
91,564 corpus weight
- pastor
pastor
91,563 corpus weight
- pater
pater
91,562 corpus weight
- paypal
paypal
91,561 corpus weight
What this shows „pastor“ 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 | pastor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pəsˈto] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „pastor“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pastor (IPA [pəsˈto]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,438 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "der Hirte, der Schäfer".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pastor, with forms such as "apstor", "pasotr", and "passtor". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "pater", "pesto", "Poster", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is pastor, spelled P-A-S-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1der Hirte, der Schäfer
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apstor
- pasotr
- passtor
- pastorr
- pastro
- pasttor
- patsor
- ppastor
- psator
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pastor - 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 "pastor", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).