Reaktor
[ʁeˈaktoːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Reaktor” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,709. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,709
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - „abgegrenzter Raum, in dem gezielte kernphysikalische, chemische oder biologische Vorgänge ablaufen“
Corpus desk
Index DE-reaktor · Reaktor · German
Reaktor · rank #20,709 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,709
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Ratschlag
Nearest frequency peer: Ratschlag (-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 „Reaktor“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- qualitative
qualitative
79,295 corpus weight
- ragt
ragt
79,294 corpus weight
- Ratschlag
Ratschlag
79,293 corpus weight
- Reaktor
Reaktor
79,292 corpus weight
- rechnete
rechnete
79,291 corpus weight
- reinem
reinem
79,290 corpus weight
What this shows „Reaktor“ 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 | Reaktor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁeˈaktoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Reaktor“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Reaktor (IPA [ʁeˈaktoːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,709 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "„abgegrenzter Raum, in dem gezielte kernphysikalische, chemische oder biologische Vorgänge ablaufen“".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Reaktor, with forms such as "eraktor", "raektor", and "reakktor". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Rektor", "Reaktoren", "Reaktion", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Reaktor, spelled R-E-A-K-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1„abgegrenzter Raum, in dem gezielte kernphysikalische, chemische oder biologische Vorgänge ablaufen“
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Reaktor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Manche Reaktoren sind sehr störanfällig.
„Von meinem Hotelzimmer in Minsk skype ich mit Juri Bandaschewski, der das Universitätsklinikum in Gomel geleitet hat, 140 Kilometer vom Reaktor entfernt.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eraktor
- raektor
- reakktor
- reakotr
- reaktorr
- reaktro
- reakttor
- reatkor
- rekator
- rreaktor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Reaktor - 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 "Reaktor", 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).