current
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The verdict
“current” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,986
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aktuell
Corpus desk
Index DE-current · current · German
current · rank #31,986 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,986
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH darstelle
Nearest frequency peer: darstelle (+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 „current“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- champs
champs
68,019 corpus weight
- char
char
68,018 corpus weight
- comfort
comfort
68,017 corpus weight
- current
current
68,015 corpus weight
- darstelle
darstelle
68,014 corpus weight
- Deborah
Deborah
68,013 corpus weight
What this shows „current“ 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 | current |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „current“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around current (IPA […]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,986 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for current, with forms such as "ccurrent", "crurent", and "curent". 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, "of", "ii", "TO", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is current, spelled C-U-R-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1aktuell
- 2momentan
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how current appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a current event
"Subsequent chapters describe the development of the field since 1933, its market expansion through new applications, current catalyst and production processes, molecular weight and composition distribution analysis, and emerging trends."
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccurrent
- crurent
- curent
- curernt
- currennt
- currentt
- curretn
- currnet
- ucrrent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of current - 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 "current", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).