Rauchmelder
[ˈʁaʊ̯xˌmɛldɐ]
The verdict
“Rauchmelder” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,277. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,277
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerät, das Alarm schlägt, wenn es zu Rauchentwicklung kommt
Corpus desk
Index DE-rauchmelder · Rauchmelder · German
Rauchmelder · rank #25,277 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,277
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Raster
Nearest frequency peer: Raster (-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 “Rauchmelder”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Präsidentsc…
Präsidentschaftswahl
74,728 corpus weight
- purple
purple
74,727 corpus weight
- quad
quad
74,726 corpus weight
- Raster
Raster
74,725 corpus weight
- Rauchmelder
Rauchmelder
74,724 corpus weight
- Rechtschrei…
Rechtschreibfehler
74,721 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Rauchmelder” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rauchmelder |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁaʊ̯xˌmɛldɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #25,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Rauchmelder” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Rauchmelder (IPA [ˈʁaʊ̯xˌmɛldɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,277 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gerät, das Alarm schlägt, wenn es zu Rauchentwicklung kommt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Rauchmelder, with forms such as "aruchmelder", "racuhmelder", and "raucchmelder". 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. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Rauchmelder, spelled R-A-U-C-H-M-E-L-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Gerät, das Alarm schlägt, wenn es zu Rauchentwicklung kommt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rauchmelder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Viele Landesbauordnungen fordern Rauchmelder – im offiziellen Sprachgebrauch Rauchwarnmelder – in Wohnungen – in der Regel in Schlaf- und Kinderzimmern sowie in Fluren, die als Fluchtweg dienen: Vorreiter sind Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz, Hessen, Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen. Neu i…
„Den Rauchmelder in seinem Büro hatte er eigenhändig mit Isolierband abgedichtet.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aruchmelder
- racuhmelder
- raucchmelder
- rauchemlder
- rauchhmelder
- rauchmedler
- rauchmeldder
- rauchmelderr
- rauchmeldre
- rauchmeledr
- rauchmellder
- rauchmleder
- rauchmmelder
- raucmhelder
- rauhcmelder
- rrauchmelder
- ruachmelder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Rauchmelder - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.