Cricket
[ˈkʁɪkət]
The verdict
“Cricket” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #39,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,875
- frequency rank, German
- 20,081
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ballsport zwischen zwei Mannschaften, bei dem ein Spieler versucht, mit einem Ball gegnerische Tore umzuwerfen, und ein Spieler der gegnerischen Mannschaft versucht diesen Ball mit einem Schlagholz...
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 | Cricket |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʁɪkət] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cricket” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Cricket (IPA [ˈkʁɪkət]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,875 among 20,081 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ballsport zwischen zwei Mannschaften, bei dem ein Spieler versucht, mit einem Ball gegnerische Tore umzuwerfen, und ein Spieler der gegnerischen Mannschaft versucht diesen Ball mit einem Schlagholz...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cricket, with forms such as "ccricket", "circket", and "crciket". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "chicken", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Cricket, spelled C-R-I-C-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1Ballsport zwischen zwei Mannschaften, bei dem ein Spieler versucht, mit einem Ball gegnerische Tore umzuwerfen, und ein Spieler der gegnerischen Mannschaft versucht diesen Ball mit einem Schlagholz möglichst weit ins Feld zu schlagen, um Punkte zu erzielen
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccricket
- circket
- crciket
- criccket
- cricekt
- crickett
- crickket
- crickte
- crikcet
- crricket
- rcicket
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cricket - 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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Using “Cricket”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-R-I-C-K-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkʁɪkət] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “chicken” - see the side-by-side comparison. Cricket vs chicken
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.