Ines
[ˈiːnɛs]
The verdict
“Ines” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,771) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,771
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-ines · Ines · German
Ines · rank #22,771 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,771
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH individuelles
Nearest frequency peer: individuelles (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Ines“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „Ines“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Ines |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈiːnɛs] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ines“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ines is neighbouring look-alikes ("is", "ins", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈiːnɛs]. Frequency #22,771 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "weiblicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ines, with forms such as "iness", "innes", and "inse". 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, "is", "ins", "Ios", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Ines, spelled I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1weiblicher Vorname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iness
- innes
- inse
- nies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ines - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).