brooks
[bɹʊks]
The verdict
“brooks” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,195. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,195
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs brook
Corpus desk
Index DE-brooks · brooks · German
brooks · rank #18,195 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,195
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bowl
Nearest frequency peer: bowl (-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 „brooks“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bitteren
bitteren
81,809 corpus weight
- Bordell
Bordell
81,808 corpus weight
- bowl
bowl
81,807 corpus weight
- brooks
brooks
81,806 corpus weight
- Buchhändler
Buchhändler
81,805 corpus weight
- Canada
Canada
81,803 corpus weight
What this shows „brooks“ 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 | brooks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bɹʊks] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „brooks“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around brooks (IPA [bɹʊks]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,195 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs brook".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for brooks, with forms such as "bbrooks", "boroks", and "brokos". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "bros", "book", "boos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 brooks, spelled B-R-O-O-K-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs brook
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbrooks
- boroks
- brokos
- broks
- brookks
- brookss
- broosk
- brrooks
- rbooks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brooks - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brooks", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).