Kicker
[ˈkɪkɐ]
The verdict
“Kicker” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,227
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dem Fußball nachempfundenes Spiel und Spielgerät mit dreh- und verschiebbaren Stangen, bei dem die an den Stangen befestigten Figuren einen kleinen Ball ins gegnerische Tor befördern sollen
Corpus desk
Index DE-kicker · Kicker · German
Kicker · rank #9,227 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,227
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Klassik
Nearest frequency peer: Klassik (+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 „Kicker“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Jason
Jason
90,777 corpus weight
- kaiserlichen
kaiserlichen
90,776 corpus weight
- Kicker
Kicker
90,774 corpus weight
- Klassik
Klassik
90,773 corpus weight
- kocht
kocht
90,772 corpus weight
- Kommentaren
Kommentaren
90,771 corpus weight
What this shows „Kicker“ 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 | Kicker |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɪkɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Kicker“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Kicker (IPA [ˈkɪkɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,227 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kicker, with forms such as "ikcker", "kciker", and "kiccker". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "kickt", "Kinder", "Killer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Kicker, spelled K-I-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1dem Fußball nachempfundenes Spiel und Spielgerät mit dreh- und verschiebbaren Stangen, bei dem die an den Stangen befestigten Figuren einen kleinen Ball ins gegnerische Tor befördern sollen
- 2Fußballspieler
- 3Spieler, der dafür zuständig ist, den Ball durch die Torstangen zu kicken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kicker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gestern haben wir Kicker gespielt.
Im Freizeitraum steht ein Kicker.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikcker
- kciker
- kiccker
- kicekr
- kickerr
- kickker
- kickre
- kikcer
- kkicker
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kicker - 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 "Kicker", 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).