Platzhalter
[ˈplat͡sˌhaltɐ]
The verdict
“Platzhalter” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,965. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,965
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - allgemein: Person, die für eine andere einen Platz freihält
Corpus desk
Index DE-platzhalter · Platzhalter · German
Platzhalter · rank #49,965 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,965
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH PMS
Nearest frequency peer: PMS (+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 “Platzhalter”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Plankton
Plankton
50,040 corpus weight
- plants
plants
50,039 corpus weight
- Platzhalter
Platzhalter
50,036 corpus weight
- PMS
PMS
50,035 corpus weight
- Polizeistaat
Polizeistaat
50,034 corpus weight
- Pollock
Pollock
50,033 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Platzhalter” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Platzhalter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈplat͡sˌhaltɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #49,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Platzhalter” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Platzhalter (IPA [ˈplat͡sˌhaltɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,965 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Platzhalter, with forms such as "lpatzhalter", "paltzhalter", and "plathzalter". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Platzhalter, spelled P-L-A-T-Z-H-A-L-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1allgemein: Person, die für eine andere einen Platz freihält
- 2grammatische Einheit in einem übergeordneten Teilsatz, die auf etwas im untergeordneten Teilsatz hinweist, selbst keine eigene Bedeutung hat und in vielen Fällen auch einfach weggelassen werden kann.
- 3ein Zeichen oder eine Zeichenkette, die stellvertretend für etwas steht
- 4Name für eine Leerstelle in einem logischen oder mathematischen Ausdruck
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Platzhalter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Platzhalter "es" in dem Satz "Es ist richtig, dass du kommen willst" weist auf den untergeordneten Teilsatz (= Nebensatz) "dass du kommen willst" hin und wird ausgelassen, wenn die Stellung der Wortgruppen verändert wird: "Dass du kommen willst, ist richtig." Das "es" ist in diesem Fall an die erste Position gebunden.
Auch Pronominaladverbien werden oft als Platzhalter verwendet und können meist ausgelassen werden: "Wir freuen uns darüber, dass du kommst." Der Platzhalter "darüber" kann problemlos ausgelassen werden.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpatzhalter
- paltzhalter
- plathzalter
- plattzhalter
- platzahlter
- platzhaletr
- platzhallter
- platzhalterr
- platzhaltre
- platzhaltter
- platzhatler
- platzhhalter
- platzhlater
- platzzhalter
- plazthalter
- pllatzhalter
- pltazhalter
- pplatzhalter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Platzhalter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.