does
[dʌz]
The verdict
“does” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,299) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,299
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Indikativ Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs do
Corpus desk
Index DE-does · does · German
does · rank #24,299 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,299
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH DJs
Nearest frequency peer: DJs (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „does“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Digga
Digga
75,706 corpus weight
- diskutierte
diskutierte
75,705 corpus weight
- Diva
Diva
75,704 corpus weight
- DJs
DJs
75,703 corpus weight
- does
does
75,702 corpus weight
- dragons
dragons
75,700 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „does“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | does |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [dʌz] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „does“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for does is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ds", "don", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [dʌz]. Frequency #24,299 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "3. Person Indikativ Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs do".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for does, with forms such as "ddoes", "deos", and "doess". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ds", "don", "dom", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is does, spelled D-O-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Indikativ Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs do
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoes
- deos
- doess
- odes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of does - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).