clock
[klɒk]
The verdict
“clock” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,562. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,562
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - feststehende Uhr, die im Gegensatz zur Armbanduhr nicht getragen werden kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-clock · clock · German
clock · rank #49,562 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,562
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH collaboration
Nearest frequency peer: collaboration (+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 „clock“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Chardonnay
Chardonnay
50,445 corpus weight
- Christenheit
Christenheit
50,443 corpus weight
- clock
clock
50,439 corpus weight
- collaborati…
collaboration
50,438 corpus weight
- Covers
Covers
50,436 corpus weight
- Cremes
Cremes
50,434 corpus weight
What this shows „clock“ 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 | clock |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [klɒk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „clock“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around clock (IPA [klɒk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,562 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for clock, with forms such as "cclock", "clcok", and "cllock". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "cook", "coco", "cock", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is clock, spelled C-L-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1feststehende Uhr, die im Gegensatz zur Armbanduhr nicht getragen werden kann
- 2ein Instrument, das etwas messen oder beobachten kann (zum Beispiel ein Tachometer)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclock
- clcok
- cllock
- clocck
- clockk
- clokc
- colck
- lcock
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clock - 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 "clock", 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).