Christ
[kʁɪst]
The verdict
“Christ” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,025
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anhänger des Christentums
Corpus desk
Index DE-christ · Christ · German
Christ · rank #7,025 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,025
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH chemische
Nearest frequency peer: chemische (-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 „Christ“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- brutal
brutal
92,979 corpus weight
- Bär
Bär
92,978 corpus weight
- chemische
chemische
92,977 corpus weight
- Christ
Christ
92,976 corpus weight
- Clinton
Clinton
92,975 corpus weight
- cum
cum
92,974 corpus weight
What this shows „Christ“ 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 | Christ |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁɪst] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Christ“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Christ (IPA [kʁɪst]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,025 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Anhänger des Christentums".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Christ, with forms such as "cchrist", "chhrist", and "chirst". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Christi", "Christa", "Christo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Christ, spelled C-H-R-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Anhänger des Christentums
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Christ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Christen glauben an einen dreifaltigen Gott.
„Ihre Situation änderte sich nicht wesentlich, denn auch als Christ plagte Tilak sich und seine Frau mit denselben Entsagungen.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchrist
- chhrist
- chirst
- chrisst
- christt
- chrits
- chrrist
- chrsit
- crhist
- hcrist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Christ - 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 "Christ", 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).