dash
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The verdict
“dash” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,597) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,597
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Widder
Corpus desk
Index DE-dash · dash · German
dash · rank #28,597 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,597
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Demonstrativ
Nearest frequency peer: Demonstrativ (+2 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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „dash“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Cloppenburg
Cloppenburg
71,409 corpus weight
- cora
cora
71,407 corpus weight
- dash
dash
71,404 corpus weight
- Demonstrativ
Demonstrativ
71,402 corpus weight
- derivate
derivate
71,401 corpus weight
- destiny
destiny
71,400 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „dash“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | dash |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „dash“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dash is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ds", "DH", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #28,597 among 2,764 “D” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for dash, with forms such as "dashh", "dassh", and "ddash". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ds", "DH", "des", 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 dash, spelled D-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1Widder
- 2hydraulischer Widder, Zylinder
- 3Rammbock
- 4Widder
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dashh
- dassh
- ddash
- dsah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dash - 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 "dash", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).