called
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The verdict
“called” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,982. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,982
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs call
Corpus desk
Index DE-called · called · German
called · rank #32,982 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,982
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH bürgerliches
Nearest frequency peer: bürgerliches (-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 „called“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bändigen
bändigen
67,023 corpus weight
- bücken
bücken
67,021 corpus weight
- bürgerliches
bürgerliches
67,020 corpus weight
- called
called
67,019 corpus weight
- Clement
Clement
67,018 corpus weight
- coupon
coupon
67,017 corpus weight
What this shows „called“ 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 | called |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „called“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around called (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,982 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs call".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for called, with forms such as "aclled", "caled", and "caleld". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Celle", "calls", "Celler", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is called, spelled C-A-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs call
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclled
- caled
- caleld
- callde
- calledd
- ccalled
- claled
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of called - 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 "called", 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).