quality
[kwɒlɪtɪ]
The verdict
“quality” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,363. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,363
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualität
Corpus desk
Index DE-quality · quality · German
quality · rank #18,363 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,363
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH RAin
Nearest frequency peer: RAin (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “quality”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- psychiatris…
psychiatrischen
81,641 corpus weight
- Puff
Puff
81,640 corpus weight
- quality
quality
81,638 corpus weight
- RAin
RAin
81,637 corpus weight
- Rampe
Rampe
81,636 corpus weight
- Rathauses
Rathauses
81,635 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “quality” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | quality |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kwɒlɪtɪ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “quality” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around quality (IPA [kwɒlɪtɪ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,363 among 216 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualität".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for quality, with forms such as "qaulity", "qquality", and "quailty". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "quält", "Qualität", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is quality, spelled Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Qualität
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quality appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The quality of our products increased over the years.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaulity
- qquality
- quailty
- qualitty
- qualityy
- qualiyt
- quallity
- qualtiy
- qulaity
- uqality
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quality - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quality", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "quality". Here's where to go from here.
- "quality" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "quält". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #18,363 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "Q" letter cohort. Q–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.