dicken
[ˈdɪkn̩]
The verdict
“dicken” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,416
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - durch Zugabe von Geliermittel, Mehl oder Ähnlichem etwas Flüssiges (besonders Speisen) dickflüssiger, zähflüssiger, fester machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-dicken · dicken · German
dicken · rank #4,416 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,416
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dan
Nearest frequency peer: dan (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dicken”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Börse
Börse
95,588 corpus weight
- Büchern
Büchern
95,587 corpus weight
- dan
dan
95,586 corpus weight
- dicken
dicken
95,585 corpus weight
- doof
doof
95,583 corpus weight
- Empfehlung
Empfehlung
95,582 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dicken” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | dicken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdɪkn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “dicken” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dicken (IPA [ˈdɪkn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,416 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dicken, with forms such as "dciken", "ddicken", and "diccken". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "diesen", "dienen", "dingen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 dicken, spelled D-I-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1durch Zugabe von Geliermittel, Mehl oder Ähnlichem etwas Flüssiges (besonders Speisen) dickflüssiger, zähflüssiger, fester machen
- 2dickflüssiger, zähflüssiger, fester werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dicken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Gulasch, das da kulinarisch und für den Autor ästhetisch fremd aufgetragen wurde (mit Maggi gewürzt und mit Mehl gedickt), schmeckte ihm überhaupt nicht.“
„Wird die Milch aber mit der gleichen Menge Wassers verdünnt, so wird sie durch Lab nicht mehr gedickt.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dciken
- ddicken
- diccken
- dicekn
- dickenn
- dickken
- dickne
- dikcen
- idcken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dicken - 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 "dicken", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "dicken" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "diesen". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,416 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "D" letter cohort. D–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.