chief
[tʃiːf]
The verdict
“chief” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,202
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die meiste Wichtigkeit besitzend
Corpus desk
Index DE-chief · chief · German
chief · rank #11,202 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,202
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Bullshit
Nearest frequency peer: Bullshit (-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 „chief“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- brecht
brecht
88,802 corpus weight
- buchstäblich
buchstäblich
88,801 corpus weight
- Bullshit
Bullshit
88,800 corpus weight
- chief
chief
88,799 corpus weight
- colin
colin
88,798 corpus weight
- Cousine
Cousine
88,797 corpus weight
What this shows „chief“ 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 | chief |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [tʃiːf] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „chief“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around chief (IPA [tʃiːf]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,202 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for chief, with forms such as "cchief", "cheif", and "chhief". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Chip", "China", "Chips", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 chief, spelled C-H-I-E-F.
Definition
- 1die meiste Wichtigkeit besitzend
- 2den höchsten Rang besitzend
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchief
- cheif
- chhief
- chieff
- chife
- cihef
- hcief
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chief - 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 "chief", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).