Telegraph
[teleˈɡʁaːf]
The verdict
“Telegraph” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,309. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,309
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - technisches Gerät zur elektrischen Übermittlung von Nachrichten
Corpus desk
Index DE-telegraph · Telegraph · German
Telegraph · rank #32,309 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,309
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH telefonische
Nearest frequency peer: telefonische (-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 „Telegraph“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- tatenlos
tatenlos
67,695 corpus weight
- Teilnehmerf…
Teilnehmerfeld
67,694 corpus weight
- telefonische
telefonische
67,693 corpus weight
- Telegraph
Telegraph
67,692 corpus weight
- terre
terre
67,691 corpus weight
- Theoretiker
Theoretiker
67,689 corpus weight
What this shows „Telegraph“ 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 | Telegraph |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [teleˈɡʁaːf] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Telegraph“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Telegraph (IPA [teleˈɡʁaːf]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,309 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "technisches Gerät zur elektrischen Übermittlung von Nachrichten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Telegraph, with forms such as "etlegraph", "teelgraph", and "telegarph". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Telegramm", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Telegraph, spelled T-E-L-E-G-R-A-P-H.
Definition
- 1technisches Gerät zur elektrischen Übermittlung von Nachrichten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Telegraph appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Doch mit der Erfindung des Telegraphen, und das ist hochinteressant, wurde der Journalismus über Nacht revolutioniert.“
„Hier in Mleti ist der Telegraph vierdrähtig.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etlegraph
- teelgraph
- telegarph
- teleggraph
- telegrahp
- telegraphh
- telegrapph
- telegrpah
- telegrraph
- telergaph
- telgeraph
- tellegraph
- tleegraph
- ttelegraph
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Telegraph - 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 "Telegraph", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).