Cookie
[ˈkʊki]
The verdict
“Cookie” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,208. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,208
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rundes, im Ofen gebackenes Plätzchen aus der amerikanischen Küche
Corpus desk
Index DE-cookie · Cookie · German
Cookie · rank #20,208 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,208
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cox
Nearest frequency peer: cox (+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 „Cookie“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- camps
camps
79,797 corpus weight
- click
click
79,795 corpus weight
- Cookie
Cookie
79,793 corpus weight
- cox
cox
79,792 corpus weight
- creek
creek
79,791 corpus weight
- crime
crime
79,790 corpus weight
What this shows „Cookie“ 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 | Cookie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʊki] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Cookie“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Cookie (IPA [ˈkʊki]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,208 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cookie, with forms such as "ccookie", "cokie", and "cokoie". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "coole", "Cookies", "cook", 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 Cookie, spelled C-O-O-K-I-E.
Definition
- 1rundes, im Ofen gebackenes Plätzchen aus der amerikanischen Küche
- 2Daten, die von Internetanbietern nach einem Besuch auf deren Seite auf dem Rechner des Internetbenutzers hinterlassen werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cookie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Immer mehr Bäckereien haben Cookies im Angebot, die amerikanischen Riesenkekse mit dicken Schokostückchen.“
Auf der Webseite dieses Versandhandels habe ich mir schon wieder ein Cookie eingefangen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccookie
- cokie
- cokoie
- cooike
- cookei
- cookkie
- ocokie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cookie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).