Pflegekraft
[ˈp͡fleːɡəˌkʁaft]
The verdict
“Pflegekraft” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,954
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die in einem Pflegeheim, Krankenhaus oder einer ähnlichen Einrichtung tätig ist und sich dort um pflegebedürftige Menschen kümmert
Corpus desk
Index DE-pflegekraft · Pflegekraft · German
Pflegekraft · rank #49,954 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,954
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 49,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Pfirsiche
Nearest frequency peer: Pfirsiche (-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 “Pflegekraft”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pfandflasch…
Pfandflaschen
50,050 corpus weight
- Pferdestall
Pferdestall
50,049 corpus weight
- Pfirsiche
Pfirsiche
50,048 corpus weight
- Pflegekraft
Pflegekraft
50,047 corpus weight
- Photonen
Photonen
50,045 corpus weight
- Pigmente
Pigmente
50,044 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Pflegekraft” 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 | Pflegekraft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈp͡fleːɡəˌkʁaft] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #49,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pflegekraft” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Pflegekraft (IPA [ˈp͡fleːɡəˌkʁaft]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,954 among 49,534 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die in einem Pflegeheim, Krankenhaus oder einer ähnlichen Einrichtung tätig ist und sich dort um pflegebedürftige Menschen kümmert".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pflegekraft, with forms such as "fplegekraft", "pfelgekraft", and "pfflegekraft". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Pflegekräfte", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Pflegekraft, spelled P-F-L-E-G-E-K-R-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die in einem Pflegeheim, Krankenhaus oder einer ähnlichen Einrichtung tätig ist und sich dort um pflegebedürftige Menschen kümmert
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fplegekraft
- pfelgekraft
- pfflegekraft
- pfleegkraft
- pflegekarft
- pflegekkraft
- pflegekrafft
- pflegekraftt
- pflegekratf
- pflegekrfat
- pflegekrraft
- pflegerkaft
- pfleggekraft
- pflegkeraft
- pflgeekraft
- pfllegekraft
- plfegekraft
- ppflegekraft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pflegekraft - 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.
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 May 6, 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 "Pflegekraft", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).
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.