dog
[dɒɡ]
The verdict
“dog” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,051) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,051
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fleischfressendes Säugetier der Gattung Canis
Corpus desk
Index DE-dog · dog · German
dog · rank #12,051 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,051
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dichten
Nearest frequency peer: dichten (-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 „dog“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- derartigen
derartigen
87,953 corpus weight
- Desktop
Desktop
87,952 corpus weight
- dichten
dichten
87,951 corpus weight
- dog
dog
87,950 corpus weight
- dortige
dortige
87,949 corpus weight
- edge
edge
87,948 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „dog“ 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 | dog |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɒɡ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „dog“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dog is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "Ds", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [dɒɡ]. Frequency #12,051 among 2,764 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dog, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "Ds", "DW", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is dog, spelled D-O-G.
Definition
- 1fleischfressendes Säugetier der Gattung Canis
- 2männlicher Hund [1]
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dog appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The dog barked all night.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).