cock
[kɒk]
The verdict
“cock” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,029. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,029
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männliches Huhn
Corpus desk
Index DE-cock · cock · German
cock · rank #38,029 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,029
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH claim
Nearest frequency peer: claim (-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 „cock“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Chefredakte…
Chefredakteurin
61,976 corpus weight
- Choral
Choral
61,974 corpus weight
- claim
claim
61,973 corpus weight
- cock
cock
61,972 corpus weight
- Computerspi…
Computerspielen
61,970 corpus weight
- coolste
coolste
61,968 corpus weight
What this shows „cock“ 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 | cock |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɒk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „cock“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cock (IPA [kɒk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,029 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cock, with forms such as "ccock", "ccok", and "cocck". 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, "con", "com", "cod", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is cock, spelled C-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1männliches Huhn
- 2männlicher Vogel
- 3Penis
- 4formlose Anrede von Mann zu Mann
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccock
- ccok
- cocck
- cockk
- cokc
- occk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cock - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).