dran
[dʁan]
The verdict
“dran” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #964
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine direkte räumliche Berührung ausdrückend
Corpus desk
Index DE-dran · dran · German
dran · rank #964 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #964
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH bietet
Nearest frequency peer: bietet (-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 „dran“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Wochenende
Wochenende
99,040 corpus weight
- beginnt
beginnt
99,039 corpus weight
- bietet
bietet
99,038 corpus weight
- dran
dran
99,037 corpus weight
- dritten
dritten
99,036 corpus weight
- durchaus
durchaus
99,035 corpus weight
What this shows „dran“ 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 | dran |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [dʁan] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „dran“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around dran (IPA [dʁan]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #964 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for dran, with forms such as "darn", "ddran", and "drann". 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, "DRK", "dry", "DRS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is dran, spelled D-R-A-N.
Definition
- 1eine direkte räumliche Berührung ausdrückend
- 2allgemein einen Bezug ausdrückend
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- darn
- ddran
- drann
- drna
- drran
- rdan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dran - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dran", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).