crews
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The verdict
“crews” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #40,466. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,466
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs crew
Corpus desk
Index DE-crews · crews · German
crews · rank #40,466 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,466
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH contract
Nearest frequency peer: contract (-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 „crews“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- coin
coin
59,537 corpus weight
- contract
contract
59,536 corpus weight
- crews
crews
59,535 corpus weight
- Cumshot
Cumshot
59,534 corpus weight
- DDP
DDP
59,533 corpus weight
- dec
dec
59,532 corpus weight
What this shows „crews“ 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 | crews |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „crews“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around crews (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,466 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs crew".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for crews, with forms such as "ccrews", "cerws", and "cresw". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crow", "cross", "crown", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is crews, spelled C-R-E-W-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs crew
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrews
- cerws
- cresw
- crewss
- crewws
- crrews
- crwes
- rcews
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crews - 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 "crews", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).