books
[bʊks]
The verdict
“books” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,038. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,038
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs book
Corpus desk
Index DE-books · books · German
books · rank #12,038 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,038
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH blu
Nearest frequency peer: blu (-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 „books“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bereitete
bereitete
87,966 corpus weight
- besorgte
besorgte
87,965 corpus weight
- blu
blu
87,964 corpus weight
- books
books
87,963 corpus weight
- Boxer
Boxer
87,962 corpus weight
- brasilianis…
brasilianischen
87,961 corpus weight
What this shows „books“ 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 | books |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bʊks] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „books“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around books (IPA [bʊks]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,038 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs book".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for books, with forms such as "bbooks", "bokos", and "boks". 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, "bos", "Boot", "Boss", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is books, spelled B-O-O-K-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs book
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbooks
- bokos
- boks
- bookks
- bookss
- boosk
- oboks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of books - 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 "books", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).