Rektor
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,967
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
Rektor is aGermannoun. It means: Leiter einer Schule in Deutschland (Grund-, Haupt-, Real- oder Sonderschule) Pronounced [ˈʁɛktoːɐ̯]. It ranks #9,967 in German word frequency. Often confused with Rotor and Retter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rektor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁɛktoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Rektor is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁɛktoːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,967 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Rektor, with forms such as "erktor", "rekktor", and "rekotr". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Rotor", "Retter", "Reuter", 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 Rektor, spelled R-E-K-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Leiter einer Schule in Deutschland (Grund-, Haupt-, Real- oder Sonderschule)
- 2Leiter einer Hochschule
- 3Leiter einer kirchlichen Einrichtung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erktor,rekktor,rekotr,rektorr,rektro,rekttor,retkor,rketor,rrektor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Rektor
Misspelling Variants of "Rektor"
Frequency rank: #9,967 in German
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