child
[tʃaɪld]
The verdict
“child” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,930
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kind
Corpus desk
Index DE-child · child · German
child · rank #21,930 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,930
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cher
Nearest frequency peer: cher (-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 „child“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Chancenglei…
Chancengleichheit
78,074 corpus weight
- checkt
checkt
78,073 corpus weight
- cher
cher
78,072 corpus weight
- child
child
78,071 corpus weight
- chronologie
chronologie
78,070 corpus weight
- circle
circle
78,069 corpus weight
What this shows „child“ 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 | child |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʃaɪld] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „child“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around child (IPA [tʃaɪld]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,930 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Kind".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for child, with forms such as "cchild", "chhild", and "chidl". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "CID", "Chip", "cold", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is child, spelled C-H-I-L-D.
Definition
- 1Kind
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how child appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I'm the father of two children.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchild
- chhild
- chidl
- childd
- chilld
- chlid
- cihld
- hcild
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of child - 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 "child", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).