jucken
[ˈjʊkn̩]
The verdict
“jucken” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,391
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einen unangenehmen, stechenden Reiz (meist auf der Haut) verursachen, den man durch Kratzen beseitigen möchte
Corpus desk
Index DE-jucken · jucken · German
jucken · rank #22,391 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,391
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH jubelt
Nearest frequency peer: jubelt (-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 „jucken“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Ion
Ion
77,613 corpus weight
- Isolierung
Isolierung
77,612 corpus weight
- jubelt
jubelt
77,611 corpus weight
- jucken
jucken
77,610 corpus weight
- Kamp
Kamp
77,609 corpus weight
- Kanalisation
Kanalisation
77,608 corpus weight
What this shows „jucken“ 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 | jucken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈjʊkn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „jucken“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around jucken (IPA [ˈjʊkn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,391 among 699 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for jucken, with forms such as "jcuken", "jjucken", and "juccken". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Juden", "juckt", "Jungen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is jucken, spelled J-U-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1einen unangenehmen, stechenden Reiz (meist auf der Haut) verursachen, den man durch Kratzen beseitigen möchte
- 2einen Juckreiz durch Kratzen oder Reiben beruhigen
- 3einen Reiz ausüben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jucken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mückenstiche können sehr unangenehm jucken.
Das Kind juckte sich am ganzen Körper bis einige Stellen blutig waren.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jcuken
- jjucken
- juccken
- jucekn
- juckenn
- juckken
- juckne
- jukcen
- ujcken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jucken - 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 "jucken", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).