dess
[ˈdɛ̝sː]
The verdict
“dess” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,817) as an unknown. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,817
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Utrum Singular Genitiv des Personalpronomens den
Corpus desk
Index DE-dess · dess · German
dess · rank #48,817 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,817
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH diametral
Nearest frequency peer: diametral (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „dess“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- dazustehen
dazustehen
51,187 corpus weight
- Dechant
Dechant
51,186 corpus weight
- dess
dess
51,184 corpus weight
- diametral
diametral
51,183 corpus weight
- dienenden
dienenden
51,181 corpus weight
- diet
diet
51,180 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „dess“ 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 | dess |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ˈdɛ̝sː] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „dess“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dess is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ds", "DSL", …), not just typos; it is anunknown pronounced [ˈdɛ̝sː]. Frequency #48,817 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "3. Person Utrum Singular Genitiv des Personalpronomens den".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for dess, with forms such as "ddess", "deß", and "dses". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ds", "DSL", "DNS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dess, spelled D-E-S-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Utrum Singular Genitiv des Personalpronomens den
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddess
- deß
- dses
- edss
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dess - 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 "dess", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).