children
[ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən]
The verdict
“children” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,209. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,209
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural von child
Corpus desk
Index DE-children · children · German
children · rank #21,209 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,209
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH chatten
Nearest frequency peer: chatten (-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 „children“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- century
century
78,795 corpus weight
- Charity
Charity
78,794 corpus weight
- chatten
chatten
78,793 corpus weight
- children
children
78,792 corpus weight
- Chöre
Chöre
78,791 corpus weight
- communicati…
communication
78,789 corpus weight
What this shows „children“ 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 | children |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „children“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around children (IPA [ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən]), anunknown. Corpus frequency is #21,209 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural von child".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for children, with forms such as "cchildren", "chhildren", and "chidlren". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "chillen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is children, spelled C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Plural von child
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchildren
- chhildren
- chidlren
- childdren
- childern
- childrenn
- childrne
- childrren
- chilldren
- chilrden
- chlidren
- cihldren
- hcildren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of children - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "children", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).