diary
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The verdict
“diary” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #45,854. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,854
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tagebuch
Corpus desk
Index DE-diary · diary · German
diary · rank #45,854 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,854
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dezernat
Nearest frequency peer: Dezernat (-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 „diary“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- devot
devot
54,150 corpus weight
- Dezernat
Dezernat
54,148 corpus weight
- diary
diary
54,147 corpus weight
- Dienstagmor…
Dienstagmorgen
54,145 corpus weight
- Dildos
Dildos
54,144 corpus weight
- dim
dim
54,143 corpus weight
What this shows „diary“ 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 | diary |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „diary“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around diary (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,854 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for diary, with forms such as "dairy", "ddiary", and "diarry". 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, "dry", "Dirk", "Diät", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 diary, spelled D-I-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Tagebuch
- 2Kalender
- 3Notizbuch
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dairy
- ddiary
- diarry
- diaryy
- diayr
- diray
- idary
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diary - 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 "diary", 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).