Fes
[feːs]
The verdict
“Fes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,338) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,338
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - orientalische Kopfbedeckung
Corpus desk
Index DE-fes · Fes · German
Fes · rank #39,338 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,338
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Festtage
Nearest frequency peer: Festtage (+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 „Fes“
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60,665 corpus weight
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60,663 corpus weight
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60,662 corpus weight
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60,661 corpus weight
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60,660 corpus weight
- Fleischhauer
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60,659 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Fes“ 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 | Fes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [feːs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Fes“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Fes is neighbouring look-alikes ("fi", "FH", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [feːs]. Frequency #39,338 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Gloss: "orientalische Kopfbedeckung".
No misspelling variants are generated for Fes in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fi", "FH", "fl", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Fes, spelled F-E-S.
Definition
- 1orientalische Kopfbedeckung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Verfassung von 1982 atmet noch immer den autoritären Geist, in dem Kemal 1925 durch das sogenannte Hutgesetz den Fes, die traditionell "osmanische" Kopfbedeckung, abschaffte.“
„Sie trug nämlich eine Mütze, die wie ein Fes aussah.“
Synonyms
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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