goes
[ɡəʊz]
The verdict
“goes” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,311
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs go
Corpus desk
Index DE-goes · goes · German
goes · rank #17,311 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,311
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH glückliches
Nearest frequency peer: glückliches (-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 „goes“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- gesegnet
gesegnet
82,695 corpus weight
- gewandelt
gewandelt
82,692 corpus weight
- glückliches
glückliches
82,691 corpus weight
- goes
goes
82,690 corpus weight
- Gratulation
Gratulation
82,689 corpus weight
- grauer
grauer
82,688 corpus weight
What this shows „goes“ 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 | goes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəʊz] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „goes“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around goes (IPA [ɡəʊz]), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,311 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs go".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for goes, with forms such as "geos", "ggoes", and "goess". 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", "GPS", "GUS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is goes, spelled G-O-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs go
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- geos
- ggoes
- goess
- gose
- oges
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of goes - 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 "goes", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).