checken
[ˈt͡ʃɛkn̩]
The verdict
“checken” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,025
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - neudeutsch, überprüfen
Corpus desk
Index DE-checken · checken · German
checken · rank #11,025 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,025
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH class
Nearest frequency peer: class (+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 „checken“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bewaffnet
bewaffnet
88,979 corpus weight
- Briefkasten
Briefkasten
88,978 corpus weight
- checken
checken
88,976 corpus weight
- class
class
88,975 corpus weight
- Codes
Codes
88,974 corpus weight
- CT
CT
88,973 corpus weight
What this shows „checken“ 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 | checken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃɛkn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „checken“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around checken (IPA [ˈt͡ʃɛkn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,025 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for checken, with forms such as "cchecken", "cehcken", and "chceken". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "checkt", "checks", "chicken", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 checken, spelled C-H-E-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1neudeutsch, überprüfen
- 2verstehen
- 3beschaffen
- 4hinkriegen
- 5besprechen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how checken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mein Computer lässt sich nicht mehr einschalten.“ — „Hast du schon die Kabelanschlüsse gecheckt?“
„Die Crew checkt die Maschine noch ein letztes Mal.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchecken
- cehcken
- chceken
- checcken
- checekn
- checkenn
- checkken
- checkne
- chekcen
- chhecken
- hcecken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of checken - 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 "checken", 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).