Praktikant
[pʁaktiˈkant]
The verdict
“Praktikant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,346. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,346
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die ein – in der Regel berufsvorbereitendes – Praktikum absolviert
Corpus desk
Index DE-praktikant · Praktikant · German
Praktikant · rank #19,346 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,346
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Portugiesisch…
Nearest frequency peer: Portugiesischen (-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 „Praktikant“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- plädiert
plädiert
80,658 corpus weight
- Portionen
Portionen
80,657 corpus weight
- Portugiesis…
Portugiesischen
80,656 corpus weight
- Praktikant
Praktikant
80,655 corpus weight
- praktizieren
praktizieren
80,654 corpus weight
- Privatbesitz
Privatbesitz
80,652 corpus weight
What this shows „Praktikant“ 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 | Praktikant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʁaktiˈkant] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Praktikant“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Praktikant (IPA [pʁaktiˈkant]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,346 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die ein – in der Regel berufsvorbereitendes – Praktikum absolviert".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Praktikant, with forms such as "parktikant", "ppraktikant", and "prakitkant". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Praktiken", "Praktikanten", "Praktikantin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Praktikant, spelled P-R-A-K-T-I-K-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die ein – in der Regel berufsvorbereitendes – Praktikum absolviert
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Praktikant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Offenbar kann jedermann einfach in ein x-beliebiges Krankenhaus hineinlaufen und seine Arbeitskraft als Praktikant anbieten, gratis, versteht sich.“
„Diese gemeine Frage haben sich die genervten Praktikanten ausgedacht, die zum Abnehmen der Prüfung auf die armen Fremden angesetzt worden waren.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- parktikant
- ppraktikant
- prakitkant
- prakktikant
- praktiaknt
- praktikannt
- praktikantt
- praktikatn
- praktikkant
- praktiknat
- praktkiant
- prakttikant
- pratkikant
- prkatikant
- prraktikant
- rpaktikant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Praktikant - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).