jacket
[ˈd͡ʒækɪt]
The verdict
“jacket” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,996. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,996
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jacke, Jackett, Sakko, Wams
Corpus desk
Index DE-jacket · jacket · German
jacket · rank #48,996 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,996
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH Isländische
Nearest frequency peer: Isländische (-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 „jacket“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- intranet
intranet
51,009 corpus weight
- Isidor
Isidor
51,007 corpus weight
- Isländische
Isländische
51,006 corpus weight
- jacket
jacket
51,005 corpus weight
- Jackett
Jackett
51,004 corpus weight
- jn
jn
51,002 corpus weight
What this shows „jacket“ 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 | jacket |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd͡ʒækɪt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „jacket“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around jacket (IPA [ˈd͡ʒækɪt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,996 among 699 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for jacket, with forms such as "ajcket", "jaccket", and "jacekt". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "juckt", "Jacky", "jucken", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is jacket, spelled J-A-C-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1Jacke, Jackett, Sakko, Wams
- 2Buchumschlag, Schutzumschlag, Umschlag
- 3Ummantelung, Umhüllung
- 4Zylindermantel
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jacket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Soaked and heavy, what a burden was that jacket to carry about, especially when I was sent up aloft; dragging myself up, step by step, as if I were weighing the anchor."
"For this purpose an apparation of the following construction is employed: it consists at a double-sided vessel, the interior chamber of which is appropriated to holding the oil to be purified, and the outer, which may be called the jacket, to the steam by which the oil is heated."
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajcket
- jaccket
- jacekt
- jackket
- jackte
- jakcet
- jcaket
- jjacket
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jacket - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "jacket", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).