Telefonat
[teləfoˈnaːt]
The verdict
“Telefonat” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,846. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,846
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gespräch mittels Telefon
Corpus desk
Index DE-telefonat · Telefonat · German
Telefonat · rank #16,846 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,846
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH symposium
Nearest frequency peer: symposium (-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 „Telefonat“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- strukturiert
strukturiert
83,158 corpus weight
- Städtchen
Städtchen
83,157 corpus weight
- symposium
symposium
83,156 corpus weight
- Telefonat
Telefonat
83,155 corpus weight
- Teufels
Teufels
83,154 corpus weight
- Tischen
Tischen
83,153 corpus weight
What this shows „Telefonat“ 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 | Telefonat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [teləfoˈnaːt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Telefonat“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Telefonat (IPA [teləfoˈnaːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,846 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gespräch mittels Telefon".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Telefonat, with forms such as "etlefonat", "teelfonat", and "teleffonat". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Telefone", "Telefons", "Telefonie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Telefonat, spelled T-E-L-E-F-O-N-A-T.
Definition
- 1Gespräch mittels Telefon
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Telefonat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Für die Telefonate habe er Zeugen, außerdem habe er Gesprächsprotokolle angefertigt.“
„Das Telefonat dauerte fast eine Stunde.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etlefonat
- teelfonat
- teleffonat
- telefnoat
- telefoant
- telefonatt
- telefonnat
- telefonta
- teleofnat
- telfeonat
- tellefonat
- tleefonat
- ttelefonat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Telefonat - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Telefonat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).