Quarterback
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The verdict
“Quarterback” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,294
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Offensivspieler beim American Football und Canadian Football, der die Angriffe plant und gestaltet
Corpus desk
Index DE-quarterback · Quarterback · German
Quarterback · rank #29,294 · 17 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,294
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH Quarz
Nearest frequency peer: Quarz (+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 „Quarterback“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- profitabel
profitabel
70,711 corpus weight
- Pronomen
Pronomen
70,710 corpus weight
- prophezeit
prophezeit
70,709 corpus weight
- Quarterback
Quarterback
70,707 corpus weight
- Quarz
Quarz
70,706 corpus weight
- quere
quere
70,705 corpus weight
What this shows „Quarterback“ 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 | Quarterback |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Quarterback“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Quarterback (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,294 among 216 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Offensivspieler beim American Football und Canadian Football, der die Angriffe plant und gestaltet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Quarterback, with forms such as "qaurterback", "qquarterback", and "quaretrback". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "video", "Trump", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Quarterback, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-R-B-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Offensivspieler beim American Football und Canadian Football, der die Angriffe plant und gestaltet
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Quarterback appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Da wir aber keinen Quarterback hatten, ließ mich unser Trainer Quarterback spielen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaurterback
- qquarterback
- quaretrback
- quarrterback
- quartebrack
- quarterabck
- quarterbacck
- quarterbackk
- quarterbakc
- quarterbback
- quarterbcak
- quarterrback
- quartreback
- quartterback
- quatrerback
- quraterback
- uqarterback
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Quarterback - 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 "Quarterback", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).