cest
[t͡sɛst]
The verdict
“cest” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #45,828. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,828
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Plural des Substantivs cesta
Corpus desk
Index DE-cest · cest · German
cest · rank #45,828 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,828
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Charaktereige…
Nearest frequency peer: Charaktereigenschaften (+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 „cest“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Canadian
Canadian
54,177 corpus weight
- caravan
caravan
54,176 corpus weight
- cest
cest
54,173 corpus weight
- Charakterei…
Charaktereigenschaften
54,172 corpus weight
- charismatis…
charismatischen
54,171 corpus weight
- CID
CID
54,169 corpus weight
What this shows „cest“ 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 | cest |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡sɛst] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „cest“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cest (IPA [t͡sɛst]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,828 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Genitiv Plural des Substantivs cesta".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cest, with forms such as "ccest", "cesst", and "cestt". 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", "CSU", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is cest, spelled C-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Plural des Substantivs cesta
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccest
- cesst
- cestt
- cets
- cset
- ecst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cest - 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 "cest", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).