Ventilator
[vɛntiˈlaːtoːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Ventilator” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,108. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,108
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerät, welches umgebende Luft durch Drehung eines Laufrades mit Schaufeln fördert
Corpus desk
Index DE-ventilator · Ventilator · German
Ventilator · rank #21,108 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,108
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Valerie
Nearest frequency peer: Valerie (-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 „Ventilator“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- unversehrt
unversehrt
78,896 corpus weight
- Unverständn…
Unverständnis
78,895 corpus weight
- Valerie
Valerie
78,894 corpus weight
- Ventilator
Ventilator
78,893 corpus weight
- Verantwortl…
Verantwortlicher
78,892 corpus weight
- Verfechter
Verfechter
78,891 corpus weight
What this shows „Ventilator“ 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 | Ventilator |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vɛntiˈlaːtoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Ventilator“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Ventilator (IPA [vɛntiˈlaːtoːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,108 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gerät, welches umgebende Luft durch Drehung eines Laufrades mit Schaufeln fördert".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ventilator, with forms such as "evntilator", "venitlator", and "venntilator". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Ventilatoren", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Ventilator, spelled V-E-N-T-I-L-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Gerät, welches umgebende Luft durch Drehung eines Laufrades mit Schaufeln fördert
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ventilator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Unter Ventilatoren versteht man Strömungsmaschinen zur Förderung von Luft oder anderen Gasen bis zu einem Druckverhältnis von p Ein / p Aus = 1,3.“
„Der Ventilator ist eine Vorrichtung, durch welche aus eingeschlossenen Räumen (z. B. Zimmern, Hospitälern, auf Schiffen etc.) die verdorbene Luft hinweggeschafft, und dagegen frische hereingebracht wird.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evntilator
- venitlator
- venntilator
- ventialtor
- ventilaotr
- ventilatorr
- ventilatro
- ventilattor
- ventillator
- ventiltaor
- ventliator
- venttilator
- vetnilator
- vnetilator
- vventilator
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ventilator - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ventilator", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).