Postleitzahl
[ˈpɔstlaɪ̯tˌt͡saːl]
The verdict
“Postleitzahl” has 19 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,735. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,735
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Buchstaben- oder Ziffernkombination, die auf Postsendungen den Zustellort angibt
Corpus desk
Index DE-postleitzahl · Postleitzahl · German
Postleitzahl · rank #31,735 · 19 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,735
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Popo
Nearest frequency peer: Popo (-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 „Postleitzahl“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- platzierten
platzierten
68,269 corpus weight
- poor
poor
68,268 corpus weight
- Popo
Popo
68,267 corpus weight
- Postleitzahl
Postleitzahl
68,266 corpus weight
- Preview
Preview
68,265 corpus weight
- privatem
privatem
68,264 corpus weight
What this shows „Postleitzahl“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Postleitzahl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɔstlaɪ̯tˌt͡saːl] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #31,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Postleitzahl“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around Postleitzahl (IPA [ˈpɔstlaɪ̯tˌt͡saːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,735 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Buchstaben- oder Ziffernkombination, die auf Postsendungen den Zustellort angibt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for Postleitzahl, with forms such as "opstleitzahl", "poslteitzahl", and "posstleitzahl". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Postleitzahl, spelled P-O-S-T-L-E-I-T-Z-A-H-L.
Definition
- 1Buchstaben- oder Ziffernkombination, die auf Postsendungen den Zustellort angibt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Postleitzahl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wohnort mit Postleitzahl, Straße und Hausnummer sowie Datum der Unterzeichnung sind lesbar einzutragen.
„Daher sollte man in der Folgezeit immer ein O oder ein W vor die jeweilige Postleitzahl schreiben.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opstleitzahl
- poslteitzahl
- posstleitzahl
- postelitzahl
- postleitazhl
- postleittzahl
- postleitzahhl
- postleitzahll
- postleitzalh
- postleitzhal
- postleitzzahl
- postleiztahl
- postletizahl
- postlietzahl
- postlleitzahl
- posttleitzahl
- potsleitzahl
- ppostleitzahl
- psotleitzahl
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Postleitzahl - 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 "Postleitzahl", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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