Karies

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Karies is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaːʁiɛs]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,460 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Erkrankung der Zähne, bei der der Zahnschmelz und teilweise das Dentin zerfällt".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Karies, with forms such as "akries", "kaires", and "kareis". 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, "Kies", "Kris", "Krieg", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Karies, spelled K-A-R-I-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.