Kirk
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The verdict
“Kirk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,397. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,397
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - englischer männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-kirk · Kirk · German
Kirk · rank #22,397 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,397
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Keule
Nearest frequency peer: Keule (-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 „Kirk“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- kauen
kauen
77,607 corpus weight
- Kerry
Kerry
77,606 corpus weight
- Keule
Keule
77,605 corpus weight
- Kirk
Kirk
77,604 corpus weight
- Klassifikat…
Klassifikation
77,603 corpus weight
- klassifizie…
klassifiziert
77,602 corpus weight
What this shows „Kirk“ 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 | Kirk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Kirk“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Kirk (IPA […]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,397 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "englischer männlicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kirk, with forms such as "ikrk", "kikr", and "kirkk". 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, "Kr", "kit", "Kür", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Kirk, spelled K-I-R-K.
Definition
- 1englischer männlicher Vorname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikrk
- kikr
- kirkk
- kirrk
- kkirk
- krik
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kirk - 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 "Kirk", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).