Diego
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The verdict
“Diego” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,745. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,745
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Männlicher, spanischer Vorname (entspricht dem katalanischen Didac)
Corpus desk
Index DE-diego · Diego · German
Diego · rank #7,745 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,745
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dicker
Nearest frequency peer: dicker (-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 „Diego“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Deckung
Deckung
92,259 corpus weight
- Dichte
Dichte
92,258 corpus weight
- dicker
dicker
92,257 corpus weight
- Diego
Diego
92,256 corpus weight
- Diplom
Diplom
92,255 corpus weight
- division
division
92,254 corpus weight
What this shows „Diego“ 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 | Diego |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Diego“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Diego (IPA […]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,745 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Männlicher, spanischer Vorname (entspricht dem katalanischen Didac)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Diego, with forms such as "ddiego", "deigo", and "dieggo". 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, "dig", "dio", "dies", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Diego, spelled D-I-E-G-O.
Definition
- 1Männlicher, spanischer Vorname (entspricht dem katalanischen Didac)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiego
- deigo
- dieggo
- dieog
- digeo
- idego
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Diego - 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 "Diego", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).