Referat
[ʁefəˈʁaːt]
The verdict
“Referat” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,509. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,509
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Weitergabe von zuvor ermittelten Informationen
Corpus desk
Index DE-referat · Referat · German
Referat · rank #11,509 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,509
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Recherchen
Nearest frequency peer: Recherchen (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Referat”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Puppen
Puppen
88,495 corpus weight
- Rast
Rast
88,494 corpus weight
- Recherchen
Recherchen
88,493 corpus weight
- Referat
Referat
88,492 corpus weight
- relation
relation
88,491 corpus weight
- riesiges
riesiges
88,490 corpus weight
What this shows “Referat” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the 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 | Referat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁefəˈʁaːt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Referat” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Referat (IPA [ʁefəˈʁaːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,509 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Referat, with forms such as "erferat", "reefrat", and "refeart". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Referent", "Reservat", "Referate", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Referat, spelled R-E-F-E-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Weitergabe von zuvor ermittelten Informationen
- 2Weitergabe von zuvor ermittelten Informationen
- 3Weitergabe von zuvor ermittelten Informationen
- 4Weitergabe von zuvor ermittelten Informationen
- 5Strukturelement einer formalen Organisation
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Referat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beim Schreiben des Referates fielen ihm wieder alle Kritikpunkte ein.
Spätestens ab der Hälfte des etwa 200 Seiten langen Buchs hat der Leser das Anliegen des Verfassers begriffen – kurz nachdem das unvermeidliche Referat über die früheste positive Darstellung der Melancholie überstanden ist.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erferat
- reefrat
- refeart
- referatt
- referrat
- referta
- refferat
- refreat
- rfeerat
- rreferat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Referat - 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 "Referat", 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).