cats
[kæts]
The verdict
“cats” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #28,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,127
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs cat
Corpus desk
Index DE-cats · cats · German
cats · rank #28,127 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,127
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cara
Nearest frequency peer: cara (-2 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 „cats“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Büchse
Büchse
71,879 corpus weight
- Camper
Camper
71,877 corpus weight
- cara
cara
71,876 corpus weight
- cats
cats
71,874 corpus weight
- cell
cell
71,872 corpus weight
- Christel
Christel
71,870 corpus weight
What this shows „cats“ 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 | cats |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kæts] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „cats“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cats (IPA [kæts]), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,127 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs cat".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cats, with forms such as "cast", "catss", and "catts". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CT", "Cs", "CDs", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is cats, spelled C-A-T-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs cat
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cast
- catss
- catts
- ccats
- ctas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cats - 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 "cats", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).