esst
[ɛst]
The verdict
“esst” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,114) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,114
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs essen
Corpus desk
Index DE-esst · esst · German
esst · rank #29,114 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,114
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erteilten
Nearest frequency peer: erteilten (-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 „esst“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- erhöhtem
erhöhtem
70,890 corpus weight
- ernannten
ernannten
70,889 corpus weight
- erteilten
erteilten
70,888 corpus weight
- esst
esst
70,887 corpus weight
- Exkursionen
Exkursionen
70,886 corpus weight
- fachen
fachen
70,885 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „esst“ 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 | esst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛst] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „esst“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for esst is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "est", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ɛst]. Frequency #29,114 among 4,632 “E” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for esst, including "esstt" and "eßt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "est", "ESV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 esst, spelled E-S-S-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs essen
- 22. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs essen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esstt
- eßt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of esst - 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 "esst", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).