Ratingen
[ˈʁaːtɪŋən]
The verdict
“Ratingen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,856
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-ratingen · Ratingen · German
Ratingen · rank #22,856 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,856
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH ranch
Nearest frequency peer: ranch (-2 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 „Ratingen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Quantum
Quantum
77,149 corpus weight
- Raben
Raben
77,148 corpus weight
- ranch
ranch
77,147 corpus weight
- Ratingen
Ratingen
77,145 corpus weight
- reger
reger
77,143 corpus weight
- Regiments
Regiments
77,142 corpus weight
What this shows „Ratingen“ 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 | Ratingen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁaːtɪŋən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Ratingen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Ratingen (IPA [ˈʁaːtɪŋən]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,856 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ratingen, with forms such as "artingen", "raitngen", and "ratignen". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Ringen", "Ratings", "Ratzinger", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Ratingen, spelled R-A-T-I-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ratingen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ratingen liegt im Westen Deutschlands.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- artingen
- raitngen
- ratignen
- ratinegn
- ratingenn
- ratinggen
- ratingne
- ratinngen
- ratnigen
- rattingen
- rratingen
- rtaingen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ratingen - 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 "Ratingen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).