respect
[ʁɛs.pɛ]
The verdict
“respect” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #40,791. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,791
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Respekt, Achtung, Ehrfurcht
Corpus desk
Index DE-respect · respect · German
respect · rank #40,791 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #40,791
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH repost
Nearest frequency peer: repost (-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 „respect“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Regentropfen
Regentropfen
59,213 corpus weight
- Rekordhoch
Rekordhoch
59,212 corpus weight
- repost
repost
59,211 corpus weight
- respect
respect
59,210 corpus weight
- Rettungshub…
Rettungshubschrauber
59,208 corpus weight
- rhetorischen
rhetorischen
59,207 corpus weight
What this shows „respect“ 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 | respect |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁɛs.pɛ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „respect“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around respect (IPA [ʁɛs.pɛ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,791 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Respekt, Achtung, Ehrfurcht".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for respect, with forms such as "erspect", "repsect", and "resepct". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Respekt", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is respect, spelled R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1Respekt, Achtung, Ehrfurcht
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erspect
- repsect
- resepct
- respcet
- respecct
- respectt
- respetc
- resppect
- resspect
- rrespect
- rsepect
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of respect - 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 "respect", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).