char
[ʃaʁ]
The verdict
“char” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,983. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,983
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fuder, Fuhre, Karren, Wagen, Fuhrwerk, Förderwagen, Hund, Hunt, Laufkatze
Corpus desk
Index DE-char · char · German
char · rank #31,983 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,983
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH champs
Nearest frequency peer: champs (-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 „char“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Casanova
Casanova
68,021 corpus weight
- centro
centro
68,020 corpus weight
- champs
champs
68,019 corpus weight
- char
char
68,018 corpus weight
- comfort
comfort
68,017 corpus weight
- current
current
68,015 corpus weight
What this shows „char“ 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 | char |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃaʁ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „char“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around char (IPA [ʃaʁ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,983 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fuder, Fuhre, Karren, Wagen, Fuhrwerk, Förderwagen, Hund, Hunt, Laufkatze".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for char, with forms such as "cahr", "cchar", and "charr". 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, "Cr", "CIA", "CHF", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 char, spelled C-H-A-R.
Definition
- 1Fuder, Fuhre, Karren, Wagen, Fuhrwerk, Förderwagen, Hund, Hunt, Laufkatze
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahr
- cchar
- charr
- chhar
- chra
- hcar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of char - 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 "char", 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).