ivy
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The verdict
“ivy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,136) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,136
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Efeu
Corpus desk
Index DE-ivy · ivy · German
ivy · rank #30,136 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,136
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH ita
Nearest frequency peer: ita (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ivy”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Intervall
Intervall
69,869 corpus weight
- intim
intim
69,868 corpus weight
- Islams
Islams
69,867 corpus weight
- ita
ita
69,866 corpus weight
- ivy
ivy
69,865 corpus weight
- jus
jus
69,862 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ivy” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ivy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “ivy” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ivy is neighbouring look-alikes ("ix", "IWF", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #30,136 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Efeu".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ivy in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ix", "IWF", "of", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is ivy, spelled I-V-Y.
Definition
- 1Efeu
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ivy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The presence of sooty mold indicates that the ivy or another plant above it is infested with insects."
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 "ivy", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
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- "ivy" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "ix". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #30,136 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "I" letter cohort. I–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.