jazz
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The verdict
“jazz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,900) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,900
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jazz, Jazzmusik
Corpus desk
Index DE-jazz · jazz · German
jazz · rank #4,900 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,900
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH how
Nearest frequency peer: how (-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 „jazz“
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95,104 corpus weight
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Holland
95,103 corpus weight
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95,102 corpus weight
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95,101 corpus weight
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95,099 corpus weight
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95,098 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „jazz“ 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 | jazz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „jazz“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jazz is neighbouring look-alikes ("of", "TO", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #4,900 among 699 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Jazz, Jazzmusik".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for jazz, with forms such as "ajzz", "jaz", and "jjazz". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "TO", "video", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is jazz, spelled J-A-Z-Z.
Definition
- 1Jazz, Jazzmusik
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajzz
- jaz
- jjazz
- jzaz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jazz - 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 "jazz", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).