Clark
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The verdict
“Clark” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,696. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,696
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - englischer männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-clark · Clark · German
Clark · rank #9,696 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,696
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Clan
Nearest frequency peer: Clan (-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 „Clark“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Brauerei
Brauerei
90,308 corpus weight
- Breslau
Breslau
90,307 corpus weight
- Clan
Clan
90,306 corpus weight
- Clark
Clark
90,305 corpus weight
- control
control
90,304 corpus weight
- cross
cross
90,303 corpus weight
What this shows „Clark“ 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 | Clark |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Clark“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Clark (IPA […]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,696 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "englischer männlicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Clark, with forms such as "calrk", "cclark", and "clakr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Claus", "class", "click", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Clark, spelled C-L-A-R-K.
Definition
- 1englischer männlicher Vorname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- calrk
- cclark
- clakr
- clarkk
- clarrk
- cllark
- clrak
- lcark
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Clark - 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 "Clark", 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).