attack
[əˈtæk]
The verdict
“attack” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,835. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,835
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angriff, Attacke
Corpus desk
Index DE-attack · attack · German
attack · rank #20,835 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,835
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Atomkraft
Nearest frequency peer: Atomkraft (-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 „attack“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ask
ask
79,169 corpus weight
- Assen
Assen
79,168 corpus weight
- Atomkraft
Atomkraft
79,167 corpus weight
- attack
attack
79,166 corpus weight
- Aufprall
Aufprall
79,165 corpus weight
- aufteilen
aufteilen
79,164 corpus weight
What this shows „attack“ 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 | attack |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [əˈtæk] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „attack“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around attack (IPA [əˈtæk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,835 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for attack, with forms such as "atack", "atatck", and "attacck". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Attacke", "Attacken", "Altach", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is attack, spelled A-T-T-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Angriff, Attacke
- 2Anfall
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Colonel Madison Miller, Eighteenth Missouri infantry, was during the day in command of a brigade, and was among those taken prisoners. He acted during the day with distinguished courage, coolness and ability. … In this attack I was wounded in the leg, Major Andrews severely in the head; and I here take pleasure in acknowledging the courage and coolness d…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atack
- atatck
- attacck
- attackk
- attakc
- attcak
- tatack
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attack - 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 "attack", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).