click
[klɪk]
The verdict
“click” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,206. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,206
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs clicken
Corpus desk
Index DE-click · click · German
click · rank #20,206 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,206
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH camps
Nearest frequency peer: camps (-2 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 „click“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Burka
Burka
79,799 corpus weight
- C1
C1
79,798 corpus weight
- camps
camps
79,797 corpus weight
- click
click
79,795 corpus weight
- Cookie
Cookie
79,793 corpus weight
- cox
cox
79,792 corpus weight
What this shows „click“ 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 | click |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [klɪk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „click“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around click (IPA [klɪk]), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,206 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs clicken".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for click, with forms such as "cclick", "cilck", and "clcik". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "clip", "cock", "clips", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is click, spelled C-L-I-C-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs clicken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclick
- cilck
- clcik
- clicck
- clickk
- clikc
- cllick
- lcick
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of click - 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 "click", 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).