gates
[ɡeɪts]
The verdict
“gates” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,080. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,080
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs gate
Corpus desk
Index DE-gates · gates · German
gates · rank #12,080 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,080
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gasse
Nearest frequency peer: Gasse (-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 „gates“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- FSV
FSV
87,924 corpus weight
- Gasse
Gasse
87,922 corpus weight
- gates
gates
87,921 corpus weight
- Gattungen
Gattungen
87,920 corpus weight
- gedient
gedient
87,919 corpus weight
- geheilt
geheilt
87,918 corpus weight
What this shows „gates“ 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 | gates |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡeɪts] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gates“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around gates (IPA [ɡeɪts]), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,080 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs gate".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gates, with forms such as "agtes", "gaets", and "gatess". 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, "gute", "goes", "guts", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is gates, spelled G-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs gate
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agtes
- gaets
- gatess
- gatse
- gattes
- ggates
- gtaes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gates - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "gates", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).