photography
[fəˈtɒɡɹəfi]
The verdict
“photography” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,733. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,733
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Photographie, Aufnahme, Bild
Corpus desk
Index DE-photography · photography · German
photography · rank #29,733 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,733
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pfeifer
Nearest frequency peer: Pfeifer (-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 „photography“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Pedal
Pedal
70,271 corpus weight
- Pence
Pence
70,270 corpus weight
- Pfeifer
Pfeifer
70,269 corpus weight
- photography
photography
70,268 corpus weight
- Pilotprojekt
Pilotprojekt
70,267 corpus weight
- Plantage
Plantage
70,265 corpus weight
What this shows „photography“ 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 | photography |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fəˈtɒɡɹəfi] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „photography“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around photography (IPA [fəˈtɒɡɹəfi]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,733 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for photography, with forms such as "hpotography", "phhotography", and "phootgraphy". 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, "photographie", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is photography, spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y.
Definition
- 1Photographie, Aufnahme, Bild
- 2die Tätigkeit des Photographierens
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hpotography
- phhotography
- phootgraphy
- photgoraphy
- photogarphy
- photoggraphy
- photograhpy
- photographhy
- photographyy
- photograpphy
- photograpyh
- photogrpahy
- photogrraphy
- photorgaphy
- phottography
- phtoography
- pohtography
- pphotography
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of photography - 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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "photography", 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).