populär
[popuˈlɛːɐ̯]
The verdict
“populär” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,308. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,308
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt und beliebt
Corpus desk
Index DE-popular · populär · German
populär · rank #11,308 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,308
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH platzen
Nearest frequency peer: platzen (-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 „populär“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- pfeifen
pfeifen
88,696 corpus weight
- Philosoph
Philosoph
88,695 corpus weight
- platzen
platzen
88,694 corpus weight
- populär
populär
88,693 corpus weight
- Preisträger
Preisträger
88,692 corpus weight
- Privilegien
Privilegien
88,691 corpus weight
What this shows „populär“ 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 | populär |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [popuˈlɛːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „populär“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around populär (IPA [popuˈlɛːɐ̯]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,308 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for populär, with forms such as "oppulär", "popluär", and "poppulär". 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, "populäre", "populären", "populärer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 populär, spelled P-O-P-U-L-Ä-R.
Definition
- 1in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt und beliebt
- 2ohne Fachwissen verständlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how populär appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die japanische Küche wird ja sowieso immer populärer.
Eigentlich wurde diese Art zu kochen erfunden, als in der Taisho-Ära, die 1912 begann, nach einer langen Phase der Abschottung westliche Essgewohnheiten in Japan populär wurde.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oppulär
- popluär
- poppulär
- popullär
- populrä
- populärr
- popuälr
- pouplär
- ppopulär
- ppoulär
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of populär - 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 "populär", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).