Veteran
[vetəˈʁaːn]
The verdict
“Veteran” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,864
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - altgediente, erfahrene Person
Corpus desk
Index DE-veteran · Veteran · German
Veteran · rank #31,864 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,864
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vesper
Nearest frequency peer: vesper (-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 „Veteran“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verschlimme…
verschlimmert
68,140 corpus weight
- verächtlich
verächtlich
68,139 corpus weight
- vesper
vesper
68,138 corpus weight
- Veteran
Veteran
68,137 corpus weight
- violet
violet
68,136 corpus weight
- Vogtland
Vogtland
68,135 corpus weight
What this shows „Veteran“ 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 | Veteran |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vetəˈʁaːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Veteran“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Veteran (IPA [vetəˈʁaːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,864 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Veteran, with forms such as "evteran", "veetran", and "vetearn". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Veteranen", "Vätern", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Veteran, spelled V-E-T-E-R-A-N.
Definition
- 1altgediente, erfahrene Person
- 2Oldtimer, altes gut gepflegtes Fahrzeug, Flugzeug oder Schiff, meistens Auto
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Veteran appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beim Treffen der Veteranen wurden alte Bekanntschaften aufgefrischt.
„Und so erhielten die Veteranen und Kriegsversehrten in diesem Jahrzehnt Gesellschaft von ehemaligen Verkäuferinnen, früheren Milchmädchen, einstigen Arbeiterinnen und entlassenen Dienstmädchen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evteran
- veetran
- vetearn
- veterann
- veterna
- veterran
- vetrean
- vetteran
- vteeran
- vveteran
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Veteran - 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 "Veteran", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).