chapman
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The verdict
“chapman” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,058. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,058
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - veraltet: der Kaufmann
Corpus desk
Index DE-chapman · chapman · German
chapman · rank #29,058 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,058
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Bünde
Nearest frequency peer: Bünde (-4 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 „chapman“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bösartige
bösartige
70,949 corpus weight
- Böttcher
Böttcher
70,948 corpus weight
- Bünde
Bünde
70,947 corpus weight
- chapman
chapman
70,943 corpus weight
- Computerspi…
Computerspiel
70,939 corpus weight
- Connecticut
Connecticut
70,938 corpus weight
What this shows „chapman“ 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 | chapman |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „chapman“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chapman (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,058 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chapman, with forms such as "cahpman", "cchapman", and "champan". 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, "charmant", "of", "ii", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is chapman, spelled C-H-A-P-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1veraltet: der Kaufmann
- 2veraltet: der Kunde, Käufer
- 3veraltet: Hausierer
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chapman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"A single act of selling a parcel of silk handkerchiefs to a particular person, is not a proof that he was such a hawker, pedlar, or petty chapman, as ought to take out a licence, by virtue of the acts of parliament."
"Sattens and jewels, she sells divine virtues,
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahpman
- cchapman
- champan
- chapamn
- chapmann
- chapmman
- chapmna
- chappman
- chhapman
- chpaman
- hcapman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chapman - 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 "chapman", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).