grave
[ˈɡʁaːvə]
The verdict
“grave” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,941
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - langsam und ernst, feierlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-grave · grave · German
grave · rank #48,941 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,941
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH greco
Nearest frequency peer: greco (+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 „grave“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Gewerbebetr…
Gewerbebetriebe
51,064 corpus weight
- Glaskugel
Glaskugel
51,063 corpus weight
- gleichaltri…
gleichaltrige
51,062 corpus weight
- grave
grave
51,060 corpus weight
- greco
greco
51,059 corpus weight
- greifbarer
greifbarer
51,058 corpus weight
What this shows „grave“ 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 | grave |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈɡʁaːvə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „grave“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around grave (IPA [ˈɡʁaːvə]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #48,941 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "langsam und ernst, feierlich".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for grave, with forms such as "garve", "ggrave", and "graev". 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, "Graz", "gray", "Grüne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 grave, spelled G-R-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1langsam und ernst, feierlich
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garve
- ggrave
- graev
- gravve
- grrave
- grvae
- rgave
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grave - 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.
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 "grave", 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).