primär
[pʁiˈmɛːɐ̯]
The verdict
“primär” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,338. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,338
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in erster Linie
Corpus desk
Index DE-primar · primär · German
primär · rank #6,338 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,338
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pflichten
Nearest frequency peer: Pflichten (-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 „primär“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Nächte
Nächte
93,666 corpus weight
- Oldenburg
Oldenburg
93,665 corpus weight
- Pflichten
Pflichten
93,664 corpus weight
- primär
primär
93,663 corpus weight
- Projekten
Projekten
93,662 corpus weight
- proteste
proteste
93,661 corpus weight
What this shows „primär“ 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 | primär |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pʁiˈmɛːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „primär“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around primär (IPA [pʁiˈmɛːɐ̯]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,338 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "in erster Linie".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for primär, with forms such as "pirmär", "pprimär", and "primmär". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "prime", "Prior", "primo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is primär, spelled P-R-I-M-Ä-R.
Definition
- 1in erster Linie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how primär appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die primäre und unverzichtbare Funktion der Zentralbanken ist die Stabilisierung des Finanzsystems.“
„Da die Ausformung von Gedächtnisinhalten, genauer: von „Gedächtnisspuren“, mit der Aufzeichnung und Speicherung von „Bewegungs-Mustern“ im sogenannten „Bewegungsgedächtnis“ sowie mit der Aufzeichnung und Speicherung von Atmosphären-gestaltenden Komponenten wie Licht, Geräusche, Gerüche, Temperaturen im „Atmosphärischen Gedächtnis“ bereits im Mutterleib b…
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirmär
- pprimär
- primmär
- primrä
- primärr
- priämr
- prmiär
- prrimär
- rpimär
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of primär - 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 "primär", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).