Sabotage
[ˌzaboˈtaːʒə]
The verdict
“Sabotage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,294
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - im Verborgenen betriebene, planmäßige Beschädigung, Wegnahme oder Zerstörung von Gegenständen und/oder Bestandteilen einer Infrastruktur, die der Aufrechterhaltung dieser Ordnung dienen
Corpus desk
Index DE-sabotage · Sabotage · German
Sabotage · rank #25,294 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,294
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Rückmeldungen
Nearest frequency peer: Rückmeldungen (-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 „Sabotage“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- rothaarige
rothaarige
74,711 corpus weight
- runner
runner
74,709 corpus weight
- Rückmeldung…
Rückmeldungen
74,708 corpus weight
- Sabotage
Sabotage
74,707 corpus weight
- Schilderung…
Schilderungen
74,705 corpus weight
- Schlafstöru…
Schlafstörungen
74,704 corpus weight
What this shows „Sabotage“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sabotage |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌzaboˈtaːʒə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Sabotage“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Sabotage (IPA [ˌzaboˈtaːʒə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,294 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "im Verborgenen betriebene, planmäßige Beschädigung, Wegnahme oder Zerstörung von Gegenständen und/oder Bestandteilen einer Infrastruktur, die der Aufrechterhaltung dieser Ordnung dienen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sabotage, with forms such as "asbotage", "sabbotage", and "saboatge". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Sabotage, spelled S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1im Verborgenen betriebene, planmäßige Beschädigung, Wegnahme oder Zerstörung von Gegenständen und/oder Bestandteilen einer Infrastruktur, die der Aufrechterhaltung dieser Ordnung dienen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sabotage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als Sabotage bezeichnet man einen Vorgang, der die Störung eines wirtschaftlichen oder militärischen Ablaufs hervorruft.
Derart weit soll die Paranoia gediehen sein, dass LeMond abends allein auf dem Zimmer aß und auch sein Rennrad dorthin mitnahm – aus Furcht vor Sabotage.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asbotage
- sabbotage
- saboatge
- sabotaeg
- sabotagge
- sabotgae
- sabottage
- sabtoage
- saobtage
- sbaotage
- ssabotage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sabotage - 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
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