drop
[drɒp]
The verdict
“drop” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,515. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,515
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fallen lassen, fallen, herunterfallen
Corpus desk
Index DE-drop · drop · German
drop · rank #18,515 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,515
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH durchdacht
Nearest frequency peer: durchdacht (+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 „drop“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- diskriminie…
diskriminiert
81,489 corpus weight
- dl
dl
81,488 corpus weight
- drop
drop
81,486 corpus weight
- durchdacht
durchdacht
81,485 corpus weight
- Dächer
Dächer
81,484 corpus weight
- ebola
ebola
81,483 corpus weight
What this shows „drop“ 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 | drop |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [drɒp] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „drop“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around drop (IPA [drɒp]), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,515 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for drop, with forms such as "ddrop", "dorp", and "dropp". 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, "duo", "dry", "DRS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 drop, spelled D-R-O-P.
Definition
- 1fallen lassen, fallen, herunterfallen
- 2sich legen
- 3tropfen, tröpfeln
- 4aufhören mit
- 5absetzen
- 6auslassen
- 7Punkte oder Ähnliches abgeben
- 8hinwerfen
- 9Tränen vergießen
- 10mit jemandem Schluss machen
- 11nachlassen
- 12ein Fach abwählen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The kid dropped the cup of tea.
"He was clearly so scared by his mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his bird."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddrop
- dorp
- dropp
- drpo
- drrop
- rdop
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drop - 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 "drop", 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).