Politiker
[poˈliːtɪkɐ]
The verdict
“Politiker” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #889
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die sich an der Politik beteiligt
Corpus desk
Index DE-politiker · Politiker · German
Politiker · rank #889 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #889
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH offen
Nearest frequency peer: offen (-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 „Politiker“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- mittlerweile
mittlerweile
99,115 corpus weight
- Monat
Monat
99,114 corpus weight
- offen
offen
99,113 corpus weight
- Politiker
Politiker
99,112 corpus weight
- politische
politische
99,111 corpus weight
- Rechte
Rechte
99,110 corpus weight
What this shows „Politiker“ 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 | Politiker |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [poˈliːtɪkɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Politiker“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Politiker (IPA [poˈliːtɪkɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #889 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die sich an der Politik beteiligt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Politiker, with forms such as "oplitiker", "ploitiker", and "poiltiker". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "positiver", "Politikern", "Politikers", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Politiker, spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die sich an der Politik beteiligt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Politiker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der beste Platz für Politiker ist das Wahlplakat. Dort ist er tragbar, geräuschlos und leicht zu entfernen.“ (Loriot)
„Entscheidungen fielen grundsätzlich im Senat. Aber zu ihrer Verwirklichung bedurfte es der Magistrate und bei Gesetzen auch der Volksversammlung. Einzelne Politiker oder Gruppen konnten vielleicht vorübergehend den Senat majorisieren, doch sie mussten nach menschlichem Ermessen an einer der beiden anderen Instanzen scheitern, da sich diese ihrer Kontroll…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplitiker
- ploitiker
- poiltiker
- poliitker
- politiekr
- politikerr
- politikker
- politikre
- politkier
- polittiker
- pollitiker
- poltiiker
- ppolitiker
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Politiker - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Politiker", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).