Knicks
[knɪks]
The verdict
“Knicks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,737
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kurze Kniebeuge eines Mädchens oder (bei Hofe) einer Dame als (veraltende) Respektbezeugung und (seltener) Grußform
Corpus desk
Index DE-knicks · Knicks · German
Knicks · rank #44,737 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,737
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Knorpel
Nearest frequency peer: Knorpel (+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 „Knicks“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- klickst
klickst
55,268 corpus weight
- kläre
kläre
55,266 corpus weight
- Knicks
Knicks
55,264 corpus weight
- Knorpel
Knorpel
55,263 corpus weight
- kochst
kochst
55,262 corpus weight
- kommunikativ
kommunikativ
55,261 corpus weight
What this shows „Knicks“ 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 | Knicks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [knɪks] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Knicks“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Knicks (IPA [knɪks]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,737 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "kurze Kniebeuge eines Mädchens oder (bei Hofe) einer Dame als (veraltende) Respektbezeugung und (seltener) Grußform".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Knicks, with forms such as "kincks", "kknicks", and "knciks". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Knock", "Knies", "Knirps", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Knicks, spelled K-N-I-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1kurze Kniebeuge eines Mädchens oder (bei Hofe) einer Dame als (veraltende) Respektbezeugung und (seltener) Grußform
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Knicks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sei artig, mach einen Knicks!
Ein Knicks, welcher von einem Mädchen in Gegenwart der Eltern (besonders vor ihrer Mutter) ausgeführt wurde, galt lange Zeit als Zeichen der Anerkennung der elterlichen Autorität gegenüber dem Kind.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kincks
- kknicks
- knciks
- kniccks
- knickks
- knickss
- knicsk
- knikcs
- knnicks
- nkicks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Knicks - 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 "Knicks", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).