Dreck
[dʁɛk]
The verdict
“Dreck” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,110
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schmutz, unerwünschte Substanz
Corpus desk
Index DE-dreck · Dreck · German
Dreck · rank #4,110 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,110
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH digital
Nearest frequency peer: digital (-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 „Dreck“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Christus
Christus
95,894 corpus weight
- Daheim
Daheim
95,893 corpus weight
- digital
digital
95,892 corpus weight
- Dreck
Dreck
95,891 corpus weight
- dunklen
dunklen
95,890 corpus weight
- Durchführung
Durchführung
95,889 corpus weight
What this shows „Dreck“ 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 | Dreck |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dʁɛk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Dreck“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Dreck (IPA [dʁɛk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,110 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dreck, with forms such as "ddreck", "derck", and "drcek". 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", "drei", "dreh", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Dreck, spelled D-R-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1Schmutz, unerwünschte Substanz
- 2etwas, was als minderwertig, wertlos angesehen wird
- 3Ausscheidungen des Verdauungssystems
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dreck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toni war ein Luzerner und hatte acht Kinder, alle schön, rot wie Milch und Blut, und schlank wie die Tannen im Walde, mit Zähnen weiß wie Schnee; aber mit Dreck waren alle überzogen wie mit einem Firniß, um die darunter liegende, durchschimmernde schöne, zarte Haut zu bewahren vor Kälte und Wind.
Am selben Nachmittag noch mußten wir mit Winden und Holz dem Wagen mit den Platten entgegenfahren, er war im Dreck stecken geblieben.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddreck
- derck
- drcek
- drecck
- dreckk
- drekc
- drreck
- rdeck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dreck - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Dreck", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).