disease
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The verdict
“disease” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,589
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Krankheit
Corpus desk
Index DE-disease · disease · German
disease · rank #34,589 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,589
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH diplomatischer
Nearest frequency peer: diplomatischer (-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 „disease“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- diesseits
diesseits
65,415 corpus weight
- diffamiert
diffamiert
65,414 corpus weight
- diplomatisc…
diplomatischer
65,413 corpus weight
- disease
disease
65,412 corpus weight
- divers
divers
65,411 corpus weight
- dominierend…
dominierenden
65,410 corpus weight
What this shows „disease“ 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 | disease |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „disease“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around disease (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,589 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "die Krankheit".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for disease, with forms such as "ddisease", "diesase", and "disaese". 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, "diverse", "of", "ii", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is disease, spelled D-I-S-E-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1die Krankheit
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisease
- diesase
- disaese
- diseaes
- diseasse
- disesae
- dissease
- dsiease
- idsease
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disease - 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 "disease", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).