Privatleben
[pʁiˈvaːtˌleːbn̩]
The verdict
“Privatleben” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,543. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,543
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - derjenige Teil der Lebensgestaltung, der sich im privaten/persönlichen Bereich abspielt, also außerhalb von Beruf oder Öffentlichkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-privatleben · Privatleben · German
Privatleben · rank #10,543 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,543
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pfanne
Nearest frequency peer: Pfanne (-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 „Privatleben“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Patientin
Patientin
89,460 corpus weight
- Pfanne
Pfanne
89,459 corpus weight
- Privatleben
Privatleben
89,458 corpus weight
- prost
prost
89,457 corpus weight
- Psychiater
Psychiater
89,456 corpus weight
- Reduktion
Reduktion
89,455 corpus weight
What this shows „Privatleben“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Privatleben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʁiˈvaːtˌleːbn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #10,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Privatleben“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Privatleben (IPA [pʁiˈvaːtˌleːbn̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,543 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "derjenige Teil der Lebensgestaltung, der sich im privaten/persönlichen Bereich abspielt, also außerhalb von Beruf oder Öffentlichkeit".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Privatleben, with forms such as "pirvatleben", "pprivatleben", and "priavtleben". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Privatleben, spelled P-R-I-V-A-T-L-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1derjenige Teil der Lebensgestaltung, der sich im privaten/persönlichen Bereich abspielt, also außerhalb von Beruf oder Öffentlichkeit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Privatleben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bis heute sind nur eine Handvoll Schwarzweißfotos von Turing bekannt, die aber kaum Einblick in sein Privatleben geben.“
„Die meistbeachtete Wortmeldung war allerdings eine Erklärung, in der sich der Altkanzler im Sommer 2011 gegen die »öffentliche Zurschaustellung und Vermarktung« seines Privatlebens wandte.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirvatleben
- pprivatleben
- priavtleben
- privalteben
- privatelben
- privatlbeen
- privatlebben
- privatlebenn
- privatlebne
- privatleebn
- privatlleben
- privattleben
- privtaleben
- privvatleben
- prrivatleben
- prviatleben
- rpivatleben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Privatleben - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).