Greis
[ɡʁaɪ̯s]
The verdict
“Greis” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #39,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,401
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sehr alter Mensch, meist Mann
Corpus desk
Index DE-greis · Greis · German
Greis · rank #39,401 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,401
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Grauzone
Nearest frequency peer: Grauzone (-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 „Greis“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- glüht
glüht
60,605 corpus weight
- Grafikkarten
Grafikkarten
60,603 corpus weight
- Grauzone
Grauzone
60,601 corpus weight
- Greis
Greis
60,600 corpus weight
- Grevenbroich
Grevenbroich
60,599 corpus weight
- Grünanlagen
Grünanlagen
60,596 corpus weight
What this shows „Greis“ 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 | Greis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡʁaɪ̯s] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Greis“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Greis (IPA [ɡʁaɪ̯s]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,401 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sehr alter Mensch, meist Mann".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Greis, with forms such as "geris", "ggreis", and "greiss". 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, "grey", "Gros", "grip", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Greis, spelled G-R-E-I-S.
Definition
- 1sehr alter Mensch, meist Mann
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Greis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nachdem ich Ludwig 1922 aus den Augen verloren hatte, traf ich ihn erst 72 Jahre später wieder, als er schon ein Greis war.
„Heute amüsiert man sich königlich darüber, wenn man liest, daß etwa der große deutsche Philosoph Immanuel Kant in der Laudatio der Königsberger Universität zu seinem 50. (!) Geburtstag mit ‚Ehrwürdiger Greis‘ angesprochen wurde.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- geris
- ggreis
- greiss
- gresi
- grreis
- rgeis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Greis - 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
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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 (6 here; floor ≥5).