rent
[ʁɛnt]
The verdict
“rent” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,160. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,160
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs renten
Corpus desk
Index DE-rent · rent · German
rent · rank #37,160 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,160
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Rennbahn
Nearest frequency peer: Rennbahn (-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 „rent“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- reizvolle
reizvolle
62,844 corpus weight
- Religiosität
Religiosität
62,843 corpus weight
- Rennbahn
Rennbahn
62,842 corpus weight
- rent
rent
62,841 corpus weight
- retteten
retteten
62,840 corpus weight
- Rezeptur
Rezeptur
62,839 corpus weight
What this shows „rent“ 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 | rent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁɛnt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „rent“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around rent (IPA [ʁɛnt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,160 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs renten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rent, with forms such as "ernt", "rentt", and "retn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rn", "rot", "run", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is rent, spelled R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs renten
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ernt
- rentt
- retn
- rnet
- rrent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rent - 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 "rent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).