Yacht
[jaxt]
The verdict
“Yacht” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,445. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,445
- frequency rank, German
- 67
- “Y” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - schnelles und leichtes Segel- oder Motorschiff, welches für sportliche und Freizeitaktivitäten genutzt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-yacht · Yacht · German
Yacht · rank #18,445 · 8 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,445
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 67
- PHOTO-FINISH wählbar
Nearest frequency peer: wählbar (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Yacht”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- woods
woods
81,559 corpus weight
- wunderschön…
wunderschöner
81,558 corpus weight
- wählbar
wählbar
81,557 corpus weight
- Yacht
Yacht
81,556 corpus weight
- Zeitlang
Zeitlang
81,555 corpus weight
- zugehört
zugehört
81,554 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Yacht” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yacht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [jaxt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Yacht” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Yacht (IPA [jaxt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,445 among 67 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "schnelles und leichtes Segel- oder Motorschiff, welches für sportliche und Freizeitaktivitäten genutzt wird".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yacht, with forms such as "aycht", "yaccht", and "yachht". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Yacht, spelled Y-A-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1schnelles und leichtes Segel- oder Motorschiff, welches für sportliche und Freizeitaktivitäten genutzt wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Yacht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Abends machten die Yachten am Kai fest.
„Und es dauerte keine zwanzig Minuten, da kam einer von einer Yacht herunter, setzte sich mit den beiden an den Tisch - die Frau war weg - und fing wohl an zu verhandeln.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aycht
- yaccht
- yachht
- yachtt
- yacth
- yahct
- ycaht
- yyacht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yacht - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Yacht", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Yacht". Here's where to go from here.
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #18,445 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "Y" letter cohort. Y–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.