reality

/[…]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,922

in German word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

reality is aGermannoun. It means: Realität, Wirklichkeit Pronounced […]. Often confused with really and TO.

Key facts for reality
PropertyValue
Headwordreality
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,922
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of reality in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for reality is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,922 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Realität, Wirklichkeit".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for reality, with forms such as "erality", "raelity", and "reailty". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "really", "TO", "video", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is reality, spelled R-E-A-L-I-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Realität, Wirklichkeit

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erality,raelity,reailty,realitty,realityy,realiyt,reallity,realtiy,relaity,rreality

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reality

Misspelling Variants of "reality"

erality7raelity7reailty7realitty8realityy8realiyt7reallity8realtiy7
Misspelling Variants of "reality"

Frequency rank: #10,922 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reality"?
"reality" is spelled R-E-A-L-I-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "reality" mean?
As a noun, "reality" means: Realität, Wirklichkeit
What words are commonly confused with "reality"?
"reality" is commonly confused with "really", "TO", "video". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "reality"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reality" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reality" come from?
"reality" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.