griechisch
[ˈɡʁiːçɪʃ]
The verdict
“griechisch” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,667. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,667
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zum Volk der Griechen gehörend, die Griechen betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-griechisch · griechisch · German
griechisch · rank #10,667 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,667
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Globalisierung
Nearest frequency peer: Globalisierung (-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 „griechisch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Gerichten
Gerichten
89,337 corpus weight
- gesenkt
gesenkt
89,336 corpus weight
- Globalisier…
Globalisierung
89,335 corpus weight
- griechisch
griechisch
89,334 corpus weight
- grundlegend…
grundlegenden
89,333 corpus weight
- gucke
gucke
89,332 corpus weight
What this shows „griechisch“ 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 | griechisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɡʁiːçɪʃ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „griechisch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around griechisch (IPA [ˈɡʁiːçɪʃ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,667 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for griechisch, with forms such as "ggriechisch", "girechisch", and "greichisch". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "griechische", "Griechischen", "griechischer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is griechisch, spelled G-R-I-E-C-H-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1zum Volk der Griechen gehörend, die Griechen betreffend
- 2zu Griechenland gehörend
- 3zur Sprache Griechisch gehörend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how griechisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er brachte seine griechische Ehefrau mit.
Sein König Oidipus aber ist wiederum seine tragischste und also, wenn der Ausdruck erlaubt ist, griechischste Tragödie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggriechisch
- girechisch
- greichisch
- gricehisch
- griecchisch
- griechhisch
- griechicsh
- griechiscch
- griechischh
- griechishc
- griechissch
- griechsich
- griecihsch
- griehcisch
- grriechisch
- rgiechisch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of griechisch - 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 "griechisch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).