checks
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The verdict
“checks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,692. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,692
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs check
Corpus desk
Index DE-checks · checks · German
checks · rank #35,692 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,692
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Checkpoint
Nearest frequency peer: Checkpoint (-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 „checks“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- carte
carte
64,313 corpus weight
- Ces
Ces
64,311 corpus weight
- Checkpoint
Checkpoint
64,310 corpus weight
- checks
checks
64,309 corpus weight
- chors
chors
64,308 corpus weight
- connect
connect
64,306 corpus weight
What this shows „checks“ 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 | checks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „checks“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around checks (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,692 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs check".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for checks, with forms such as "cchecks", "cehcks", and "chceks". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Chefs", "Chick", "checkt", 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is checks, spelled C-H-E-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs check
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchecks
- cehcks
- chceks
- checcks
- checkks
- checkss
- checsk
- chekcs
- chhecks
- hcecks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of checks - 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 "checks", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).