focus

noun

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The verdict

“focus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,922. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,922
frequency rank, German
3,474
“F” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opferpfanne, Räucherbecken

Corpus desk

Index DE-focus · focus · German

focus · rank #6,922 · 7 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,922
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,474
  • PHOTO-FINISH erinnerte

Nearest frequency peer: erinnerte (-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 „focus“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „focus“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

focus vs four
60% similar
focus vs Foul
40% similar
focus vs fotos
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „focus“

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).focusliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „erinnerte“ (#6,921), „fremd“ (#6,923), „entschuldigt“ (#6,920). Unter 3,474 „F“-Lemmata liegt „focus“ bei #6,922. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around focus, anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,922 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for focus, with forms such as "fcous", "ffocus", and "foccus". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "four", "Foul", "fotos", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is focus, spelled F-O-C-U-S.

Definition

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how focus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „rem divinam nisi Compitalibus in compito aut in foco ne faciat.“ (Cato agr. 5,3)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • fcous
  • ffocus
  • foccus
  • focsu
  • focuss
  • foucs
  • ofcus

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of focus - 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.

fcous2ffocus1foccus1focsu2focuss1foucs2ofcus2
Edit distance from "focus"

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.

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. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "focus", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fremd#6,923Email#6,918jenem#6,937Busch#6,902

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

alpha7 variantsmiller7 variantsOskar7 variantsPetra7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list