Apps
[ɛps]
The verdict
“Apps” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,489) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,489
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs App
Corpus desk
Index DE-apps · Apps · German
Apps · rank #4,489 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,489
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Anschlag
Nearest frequency peer: Anschlag (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Apps“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Ankunft
Ankunft
95,515 corpus weight
- anmelden
anmelden
95,514 corpus weight
- Anschlag
Anschlag
95,513 corpus weight
- Apps
Apps
95,512 corpus weight
- aufstehen
aufstehen
95,511 corpus weight
- ausgelöst
ausgelöst
95,510 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Apps“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Apps |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛps] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Apps“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Apps is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "aus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɛps]. Frequency #4,489 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Apps, with forms such as "appss", "aps", and "apsp". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "aus", "ASS", and more, 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 Apps, spelled A-P-P-S.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs App
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs App
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs App
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs App
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appss
- aps
- apsp
- paps
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Apps - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).