germain
[ʒɛʀmɛ͂]
The verdict
“germain” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,621. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,621
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Geschwister vom selben Vater und derselben Mutter
Corpus desk
Index DE-germain · germain · German
germain · rank #21,621 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,621
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gesamtkosten
Nearest frequency peer: Gesamtkosten (+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 „germain“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Genugtuung
Genugtuung
78,383 corpus weight
- gerechter
gerechter
78,382 corpus weight
- germain
germain
78,380 corpus weight
- Gesamtkosten
Gesamtkosten
78,379 corpus weight
- Gestank
Gestank
78,378 corpus weight
- gestreckt
gestreckt
78,377 corpus weight
What this shows „germain“ 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 | germain |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʒɛʀmɛ͂] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „germain“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around germain (IPA [ʒɛʀmɛ͂]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,621 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for germain, with forms such as "egrmain", "gemrain", and "geramin". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "German", "Germany", "Germania", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 germain, spelled G-E-R-M-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Geschwister vom selben Vater und derselben Mutter
- 2Cousin/Cousine ersten oder zweiten Grades
- 3Sache eine Beziehung oder Ähnlichkeit zeigend
- 4aus Germanien
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egrmain
- gemrain
- geramin
- germainn
- germani
- germian
- germmain
- gerrmain
- ggermain
- gremain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of germain - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "germain", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).