desto
[ˈdɛsto]
The verdict
“desto” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #2,102. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,102
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - oft in der Verbindung je … desto: leitet einen Satz ein, der eine proportionale Verstärkung als Folge des Inhalts des vorhergehenden Teilsatzes zum Ausdruck bringt;
Corpus desk
Index DE-desto · desto · German
desto · rank #2,102 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,102
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH daneben
Nearest frequency peer: daneben (-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 „desto“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Beschreibung
Beschreibung
97,902 corpus weight
- Charakter
Charakter
97,901 corpus weight
- daneben
daneben
97,900 corpus weight
- desto
desto
97,899 corpus weight
- dringend
dringend
97,898 corpus weight
- eingestellt
eingestellt
97,897 corpus weight
What this shows „desto“ 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 | desto |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [ˈdɛsto] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „desto“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around desto (IPA [ˈdɛsto]), aconjunction. Corpus frequency is #2,102 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "oft in der Verbindung je … desto: leitet einen Satz ein, der eine proportionale Verstärkung als Folge des Inhalts des vorhergehenden Teilsatzes zum Ausdruck bringt;".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for desto, with forms such as "ddesto", "desot", and "dessto". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "det", "Deut", "dito", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is desto, spelled D-E-S-T-O.
Definition
- 1oft in der Verbindung je … desto: leitet einen Satz ein, der eine proportionale Verstärkung als Folge des Inhalts des vorhergehenden Teilsatzes zum Ausdruck bringt;
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how desto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Er bezog den einen Flügel des Erdgeschosses. Der andere Teil blieb vorläufig leer, da der Fürst in der Einrichtung dem Geschmack und den Wünschen seiner Braut […] nicht vorgreifen wollte. Mit desto größerem Eifer ließ er an der Ausstattung der Beletage arbeiten, deren prachtvolle Räume für die Fürstin Mutter […] bestimmt waren.“
„Von düsteren Ahnungen getrieben, beschleunigte der junge Häuptling seinen Schritt, um die Festung desto schneller zu erreichen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddesto
- desot
- dessto
- destto
- detso
- dseto
- edsto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desto - 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 "desto", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).