Sarkophag
[zaʁkoˈfaːk]
The verdict
“Sarkophag” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,192
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sargähnlicher Gegenstand, meistens aus Stein gefertigt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sarkophag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zaʁkoˈfaːk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sarkophag” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Sarkophag (IPA [zaʁkoˈfaːk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,192 among 107,600 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sarkophag, with forms such as "asrkophag", "sakrophag", and "sarkkophag". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Sarkophag, spelled S-A-R-K-O-P-H-A-G.
Definition
- 1sargähnlicher Gegenstand, meistens aus Stein gefertigt
- 2Betonhülle um den bei der Nuklearkatastrophe von Tschernobyl havarierten Atomreaktor
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asrkophag,sakrophag,sarkkophag,sarkohpag,sarkopahg,sarkophagg,sarkophga,sarkophhag,sarkopphag,sarkpohag,sarokphag,sarrkophag,srakophag,ssarkophag
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sarkophag - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Sarkophag”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-A-R-K-O-P-H-A-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [zaʁkoˈfaːk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.