gries
[ɡʁiːs]
The verdict
“gries” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #47,460. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,460
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - grau, grauhaarig oder trübe beim Wetter
Corpus desk
Index DE-gries · gries · German
gries · rank #47,460 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,460
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH grenzenlosen
Nearest frequency peer: grenzenlosen (-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 „gries“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Gorillas
Gorillas
52,544 corpus weight
- grenzenlosen
grenzenlosen
52,542 corpus weight
- gries
gries
52,541 corpus weight
- Grille
Grille
52,540 corpus weight
- grotesken
grotesken
52,539 corpus weight
- Grundaussta…
Grundausstattung
52,538 corpus weight
What this shows „gries“ 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 | gries |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡʁiːs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gries“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around gries (IPA [ɡʁiːs]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,460 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "grau, grauhaarig oder trübe beim Wetter".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for gries, with forms such as "ggries", "gires", and "griess". 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, "Gros", "grip", "gutes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 gries, spelled G-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1grau, grauhaarig oder trübe beim Wetter
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bekleidung. Eine alte blaue Jacke, eine gelbbunte und eine weiße Wiste, ein gelbbunter, ein blaubunter und ein grieser Drillichrock, eine braunstreifige, eine blaustreifige und eine weiße Schürze, eine braunbunte und zwei weiße Mützen, zwei Hemde ein Paar wollene Strümpfe, ein Paar Holzpantoffeln.“ (1846)
„Is de Sommer all her? – fragen die Frauen, die einander begegnen, denn ein grieser, nebeliger Tag liegt auf der Niederelbe, die bei tauber Tide schwerfällig ebbt.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggries
- gires
- griess
- grise
- grries
- rgies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gries - 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 "gries", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).