disco
[disko]
The verdict
“disco” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,449. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,449
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discomusik, Diskomusik
Corpus desk
Index DE-disco · disco · German
disco · rank #10,449 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,449
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dortmunder
Nearest frequency peer: Dortmunder (+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 „disco“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Dankbarkeit
Dankbarkeit
89,555 corpus weight
- days
days
89,554 corpus weight
- disco
disco
89,552 corpus weight
- Dortmunder
Dortmunder
89,551 corpus weight
- Douglas
Douglas
89,550 corpus weight
- Draht
Draht
89,549 corpus weight
What this shows „disco“ 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 | disco |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [disko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „disco“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around disco (IPA [disko]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,449 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Discomusik, Diskomusik".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for disco, with forms such as "ddisco", "dicso", and "discco". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "diss", "dito", "Disk", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is disco, spelled D-I-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1Discomusik, Diskomusik
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisco
- dicso
- discco
- disoc
- dissco
- dsico
- idsco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disco - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "disco", 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).