Abbey
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The verdict
“Abbey” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,763. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,763
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - englischer weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-abbey · Abbey · German
Abbey · rank #36,763 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,763
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abbildet
Nearest frequency peer: abbildet (+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 „Abbey“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ölen
ölen
63,242 corpus weight
- überschauba…
überschaubaren
63,241 corpus weight
- übertrieben…
übertriebenen
63,240 corpus weight
- Abbey
Abbey
63,238 corpus weight
- abbildet
abbildet
63,237 corpus weight
- abfallen
abfallen
63,235 corpus weight
What this shows „Abbey“ 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 | Abbey |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Abbey“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Abbey (IPA […]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,763 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "englischer weiblicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Abbey, with forms such as "abbeyy", "abbye", and "abeby". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "abe", "aber", "Abel", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Abbey, spelled A-B-B-E-Y.
Definition
- 1englischer weiblicher Vorname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbeyy
- abbye
- abeby
- abey
- babey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Abbey - 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 "Abbey", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).