kings
[kɪŋz]
The verdict
“kings” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,669
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs king
Corpus desk
Index DE-kings · kings · German
kings · rank #15,669 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,669
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Katar
Nearest frequency peer: Katar (-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 „kings“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- kaltes
kaltes
84,335 corpus weight
- Kantons
Kantons
84,334 corpus weight
- Katar
Katar
84,333 corpus weight
- kings
kings
84,332 corpus weight
- Kleinkind
Kleinkind
84,331 corpus weight
- Knöpfe
Knöpfe
84,330 corpus weight
What this shows „kings“ 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 | kings |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɪŋz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „kings“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around kings (IPA [kɪŋz]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,669 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs king".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for kings, with forms such as "ikngs", "kigns", and "kinggs". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Kino", "Kinn", "kiss", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is kings, spelled K-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs king
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikngs
- kigns
- kinggs
- kingss
- kinngs
- kinsg
- kkings
- knigs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kings - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "kings", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).