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The verdict
“template” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #40,246. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,246
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Zeichen-)Schablone, Vorlage
Corpus desk
Index DE-template · template · German
template · rank #40,246 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,246
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Telefonzelle
Nearest frequency peer: Telefonzelle (-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 „template“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Teenies
Teenies
59,758 corpus weight
- Teiler
Teiler
59,757 corpus weight
- Telefonzelle
Telefonzelle
59,756 corpus weight
- template
template
59,755 corpus weight
- Theaterstüc…
Theaterstücke
59,754 corpus weight
- Thornton
Thornton
59,753 corpus weight
What this shows „template“ 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 | template |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „template“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around template (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,246 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for template, with forms such as "etmplate", "temlpate", and "temmplate". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "temple", "TO", "video", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 template, spelled T-E-M-P-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1(Zeichen-)Schablone, Vorlage
- 2besonders in der Informatik: Vorlage, Template; eine Klasse oder ein Klassenmember, die eine ungebundene Typvariable enthalten und damit generisch sind
- 3horizontales Teil unter einem Balken in einer Wand, das zur Verteilung des Drucks dient
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how template appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Templates are used in Wikimedia projects with the view to shorten work.
The Standard Template Library (STL) implements especially container classes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etmplate
- temlpate
- temmplate
- tempalte
- templaet
- templatte
- templlate
- templtae
- tempplate
- tepmlate
- tmeplate
- ttemplate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of template - 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 "template", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).