creek
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The verdict
“creek” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,210. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,210
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bach, Wasserlauf, meist Zufluss zu einem größeren Fluss
Corpus desk
Index DE-creek · creek · German
creek · rank #20,210 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,210
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 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 „creek“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Cookie
Cookie
79,793 corpus weight
- cox
cox
79,792 corpus weight
- creek
creek
79,791 corpus weight
- crime
crime
79,790 corpus weight
- Cuxhaven
Cuxhaven
79,789 corpus weight
- derbe
derbe
79,788 corpus weight
What this shows „creek“ 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 | creek |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „creek“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around creek (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,210 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for creek, with forms such as "ccreek", "cerek", and "creekk". 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, "crew", "crews", "crème", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 creek, spelled C-R-E-E-K.
Definition
- 1Bach, Wasserlauf, meist Zufluss zu einem größeren Fluss
- 2kleine Bucht
- 3ein schmaler, gewundener Pfad
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccreek
- cerek
- creekk
- crek
- creke
- crreek
- rceek
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of creek - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "creek", 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).