clouds
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The verdict
“clouds” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #42,404. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,404
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs cloud
Corpus desk
Index DE-clouds · clouds · German
clouds · rank #42,404 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,404
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Claas
Nearest frequency peer: Claas (-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 „clouds“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Chromosom
Chromosom
57,600 corpus weight
- Chronisten
Chronisten
57,599 corpus weight
- Claas
Claas
57,598 corpus weight
- clouds
clouds
57,597 corpus weight
- coll
coll
57,595 corpus weight
- colombo
colombo
57,594 corpus weight
What this shows „clouds“ 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 | clouds |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „clouds“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around clouds (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,404 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs cloud".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for clouds, with forms such as "cclouds", "cllouds", and "clodus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Clubs", "Clowns", "of", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is clouds, spelled C-L-O-U-D-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs cloud
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclouds
- cllouds
- clodus
- cloudds
- cloudss
- clousd
- cluods
- coluds
- lcouds
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clouds - 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 "clouds", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).