prominent
[pʁomiˈnɛnt]
The verdict
“prominent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,736
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - allgemein bekannt und bei vielen angesehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-prominent · prominent · German
prominent · rank #21,736 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,736
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH potenziell
Nearest frequency peer: potenziell (-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 „prominent“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- politischem
politischem
78,269 corpus weight
- Portugiesis…
Portugiesisch
78,267 corpus weight
- potenziell
potenziell
78,266 corpus weight
- prominent
prominent
78,265 corpus weight
- propagiert
propagiert
78,264 corpus weight
- publishing
publishing
78,263 corpus weight
What this shows „prominent“ 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 | prominent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pʁomiˈnɛnt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „prominent“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around prominent (IPA [pʁomiˈnɛnt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,736 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for prominent, with forms such as "porminent", "pprominent", and "prmoinent". 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, "Prominenz", "Prominente", "Prominenten", 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 prominent, spelled P-R-O-M-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1allgemein bekannt und bei vielen angesehen
- 2vorspringend, eine Prominentia aufweisend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prominent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An der Spitze des Verbandes steht ein sehr prominenter Anwalt.
„Der Internetgigant hat dafür extra etliche prominente Wissenschaftler angeheuert.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porminent
- pprominent
- prmoinent
- proimnent
- promiennt
- prominennt
- prominentt
- prominetn
- prominnent
- prominnet
- promminent
- promnient
- prrominent
- rpominent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prominent - 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 "prominent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).