cobra
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The verdict
“cobra” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #23,878. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,878
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Kobra
Corpus desk
Index DE-cobra · cobra · German
cobra · rank #23,878 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,878
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Chemotherapie
Nearest frequency peer: Chemotherapie (-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 „cobra“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Cache
Cache
76,127 corpus weight
- catering
catering
76,126 corpus weight
- chain
chain
76,125 corpus weight
- Chemotherap…
Chemotherapie
76,124 corpus weight
- cobra
cobra
76,123 corpus weight
- course
course
76,121 corpus weight
What this shows „cobra“ 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 | cobra |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „cobra“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cobra (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,878 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "die Kobra".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cobra, with forms such as "cbora", "ccobra", and "cobar". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cor", "Cola", "core", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is cobra, spelled C-O-B-R-A.
Definition
- 1die Kobra
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cbora
- ccobra
- cobar
- cobbra
- cobrra
- corba
- ocbra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cobra - 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 "cobra", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).