Joke
[d͡ʒoʊ̯k]
The verdict
“Joke” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,394. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,394
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine kleine (fiktive) Erzählung, Geschichte oder dergleichen, die zum Lachen anregen soll
Corpus desk
Index DE-joke · Joke · German
Joke · rank #24,394 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,394
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH journalistisc…
Nearest frequency peer: journalistischen (+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 „Joke“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Inquisition
Inquisition
75,610 corpus weight
- inszenierte
inszenierte
75,609 corpus weight
- Joke
Joke
75,607 corpus weight
- journalisti…
journalistischen
75,606 corpus weight
- JVA
JVA
75,604 corpus weight
- KfW
KfW
75,603 corpus weight
What this shows „Joke“ 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 | Joke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d͡ʒoʊ̯k] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Joke“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Joke (IPA [d͡ʒoʊ̯k]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,394 among 699 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine kleine (fiktive) Erzählung, Geschichte oder dergleichen, die zum Lachen anregen soll".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Joke, with forms such as "jjoke", "jkoe", and "joek". 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, "Joy", "Jörg", "Jude", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Joke, spelled J-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1eine kleine (fiktive) Erzählung, Geschichte oder dergleichen, die zum Lachen anregen soll
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Joke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Okay, der Joke ging auf meine Kosten, aber da er ein allgemeines befreiendes Gelächter auslöste, wollte ich mal nicht so sein und lachte mit.“
„Tymek lachte sich schlapp über Jureks kleinen Joke.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjoke
- jkoe
- joek
- jokke
- ojke
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Joke - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Joke", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).