credo
[kʁe.do]
The verdict
“credo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,949
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Glaubensbekenntnis
Corpus desk
Index DE-credo · credo · German
credo · rank #25,949 · 7 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,949
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH credits
Nearest frequency peer: credits (-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 „credo“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- computing
computing
74,055 corpus weight
- connection
connection
74,054 corpus weight
- credits
credits
74,053 corpus weight
- credo
credo
74,052 corpus weight
- CVP
CVP
74,051 corpus weight
- Datteln
Datteln
74,050 corpus weight
What this shows „credo“ 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 | credo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁe.do] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „credo“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around credo (IPA [kʁe.do]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,949 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Glaubensbekenntnis".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for credo, with forms such as "ccredo", "cerdo", and "crdeo". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "crew", "creek", "crews", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is credo, spelled C-R-E-D-O.
Definition
- 1Glaubensbekenntnis
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccredo
- cerdo
- crdeo
- creddo
- creod
- crredo
- rcedo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of credo - 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 "credo", 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).