focus

noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,922

in German word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

focus is aGermannoun. It means: Opferpfanne, Räucherbecken It ranks #6,922 in German word frequency. Often confused with four and Foul.

Key facts for focus
PropertyValue
Headwordfocus
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,922
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of focus in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for focus is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #6,922 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for focus, with forms such as "fcous", "ffocus", and "foccus". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "four", "Foul", "fotos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is focus, spelled F-O-C-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Opferpfanne, Räucherbecken
  2. 2
    Feuerstätte, Herd
  3. 3
    Heim, Heimstätte, Haus und Hof

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: fcous,ffocus,foccus,focsu,focuss,foucs,ofcus

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for focus

Misspelling Variants of "focus"

fcous5ffocus6foccus6focsu5focuss6foucs5ofcus5
Misspelling Variants of "focus"

Frequency rank: #6,922 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "focus"?
"focus" is spelled F-O-C-U-S.
What does "focus" mean?
As a noun, "focus" means: Opferpfanne, Räucherbecken
What words are commonly confused with "focus"?
"focus" is commonly confused with "four", "Foul", "fotos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "focus" come from?
"focus" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter F in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.