crown
[kɹaʊn]
The verdict
“crown” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,993. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,993
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Krone, Kopfbedeckung für Könige und Königinnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-crown · crown · German
crown · rank #29,993 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,993
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cu
Nearest frequency peer: cu (+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 „crown“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Colt
Colt
70,011 corpus weight
- compilation
compilation
70,010 corpus weight
- crown
crown
70,008 corpus weight
- cu
cu
70,007 corpus weight
- dargeboten
dargeboten
70,006 corpus weight
- deckte
deckte
70,004 corpus weight
What this shows „crown“ 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 | crown |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɹaʊn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „crown“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around crown (IPA [kɹaʊn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,993 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Krone, Kopfbedeckung für Könige und Königinnen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for crown, with forms such as "ccrown", "corwn", and "cronw". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "crew", "crow", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is crown, spelled C-R-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1Krone, Kopfbedeckung für Könige und Königinnen
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrown
- corwn
- cronw
- crownn
- crowwn
- crrown
- crwon
- rcown
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crown - 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 "crown", 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).