Christmas
[ˈkɹɪsməs]
The verdict
“Christmas” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,384. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,384
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - christliches Fest der Geburt Jesu Christi, das jährlich am 25. Dezember gefeiert wird und meist gesetzlicher Feiertag ist, sowie die Zeit um dieses Fest herum: Weihnachten
Corpus desk
Index DE-christmas · Christmas · German
Christmas · rank #16,384 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,384
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Bundesstaaten
Nearest frequency peer: Bundesstaaten (-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 „Christmas“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bratwurst
Bratwurst
83,620 corpus weight
- BS
BS
83,619 corpus weight
- Bundesstaat…
Bundesstaaten
83,618 corpus weight
- Christmas
Christmas
83,617 corpus weight
- cole
cole
83,615 corpus weight
- Countdown
Countdown
83,614 corpus weight
What this shows „Christmas“ 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 | Christmas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɹɪsməs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Christmas“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Christmas (IPA [ˈkɹɪsməs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,384 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "christliches Fest der Geburt Jesu Christi, das jährlich am 25. Dezember gefeiert wird und meist gesetzlicher Feiertag ist, sowie die Zeit um dieses Fest herum: Weihnachten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Christmas, with forms such as "cchristmas", "chhristmas", and "chirstmas". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Christus", "Christa", "Christian", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Christmas, spelled C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S.
Definition
- 1christliches Fest der Geburt Jesu Christi, das jährlich am 25. Dezember gefeiert wird und meist gesetzlicher Feiertag ist, sowie die Zeit um dieses Fest herum: Weihnachten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Christmas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Are you planning to visit your aunt at Christmas?
My son wants a toy train for Christmas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchristmas
- chhristmas
- chirstmas
- chrismtas
- chrisstmas
- christams
- christmass
- christmmas
- christmsa
- christtmas
- chritsmas
- chrristmas
- chrsitmas
- crhistmas
- hcristmas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Christmas - 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 "Christmas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).