dave
[ˈdavɛ]
The verdict
“dave” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,876. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,876
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vokativ Singular des Substantivs dav
Corpus desk
Index DE-dave · dave · German
dave · rank #9,876 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,876
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dad
Nearest frequency peer: dad (-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 „dave“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- clara
clara
90,127 corpus weight
- dad
dad
90,126 corpus weight
- dave
dave
90,125 corpus weight
- Deck
Deck
90,124 corpus weight
- Delegation
Delegation
90,123 corpus weight
- diejenige
diejenige
90,122 corpus weight
What this shows „dave“ 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 | dave |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdavɛ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „dave“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around dave (IPA [ˈdavɛ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,876 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vokativ Singular des Substantivs dav".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for dave, with forms such as "adve", "daev", and "davve". 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, "de", "DV", "die", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is dave, spelled D-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Vokativ Singular des Substantivs dav
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adve
- daev
- davve
- ddave
- dvae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dave - 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 "dave", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).