gets
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The verdict
“gets” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,773. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,773
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs get
Corpus desk
Index DE-gets · gets · German
gets · rank #38,773 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,773
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gesetzgebers
Nearest frequency peer: Gesetzgebers (-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 „gets“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Gesamteindr…
Gesamteindruck
61,231 corpus weight
- geschmuggelt
geschmuggelt
61,230 corpus weight
- Gesetzgebers
Gesetzgebers
61,229 corpus weight
- gets
gets
61,228 corpus weight
- gewaltberei…
gewaltbereite
61,227 corpus weight
- Gewehren
Gewehren
61,226 corpus weight
What this shows „gets“ 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 | gets |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gets“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around gets (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,773 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs get".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for gets, with forms such as "egts", "gest", and "getss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gs", "gut", "GPS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 gets, spelled G-E-T-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs get
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egts
- gest
- getss
- getts
- ggets
- gtes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gets - 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 "gets", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).