Amok
[ˈaːmɔk]
The verdict
“Amok” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #26,298. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,298
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine psychische Extremsituation, die durch Unzurechnungsfähigkeit und absolute Gewaltbereitschaft gekennzeichnet ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-amok · Amok · German
Amok · rank #26,298 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,298
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Amtsgerichts
Nearest frequency peer: Amtsgerichts (+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 „Amok“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- akkurat
akkurat
73,706 corpus weight
- Aktenzeichen
Aktenzeichen
73,705 corpus weight
- Amok
Amok
73,703 corpus weight
- Amtsgerichts
Amtsgerichts
73,702 corpus weight
- Annalen
Annalen
73,701 corpus weight
- Anus
Anus
73,700 corpus weight
What this shows „Amok“ 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 | Amok |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaːmɔk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Amok“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Amok (IPA [ˈaːmɔk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,298 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine psychische Extremsituation, die durch Unzurechnungsfähigkeit und absolute Gewaltbereitschaft gekennzeichnet ist".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Amok, with forms such as "amko", "ammok", and "amokk". 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, "AO", "Amt", "Amy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Amok, spelled A-M-O-K.
Definition
- 1eine psychische Extremsituation, die durch Unzurechnungsfähigkeit und absolute Gewaltbereitschaft gekennzeichnet ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Amok appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er ist gestern wieder Amok gelaufen.
„Diese bittere Erkenntnis entspricht genau dem Satz, den man von Menschen hört, nachdem sie erfahren haben, dass ihr Nachbar Amok gelaufen ist.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amko
- ammok
- amokk
- aomk
- maok
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Amok - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).