sekundär
[ˌzekʊnˈdɛːɐ̯]
The verdict
“sekundär” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,929. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,929
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - an zweiter Stelle stehend
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 | sekundär |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˌzekʊnˈdɛːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sekundär” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sekundär (IPA [ˌzekʊnˈdɛːɐ̯]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,929 among 107,600 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sekundär, with forms such as "eskundär", "sekkundär", and "seknudär". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Sekunde", "Sekunden", "sekundäre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is sekundär, spelled S-E-K-U-N-D-Ä-R.
Definition
- 1an zweiter Stelle stehend
- 2später, nach einem bestimmten Ereignis kommend, später folgend
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eskundär
- sekkundär
- seknudär
- sekudnär
- sekunddär
- sekundrä
- sekundärr
- sekunndär
- sekunädr
- seukndär
- skeundär
- ssekundär
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sekundär - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “sekundär”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-E-K-U-N-D-Ä-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌzekʊnˈdɛːɐ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Sekunde” - see the side-by-side comparison. sekundär vs Sekunde
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
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.