Korpus
[ˈkɔʁpʊs]
The verdict
“Korpus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,199. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,199
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sammlung sprachlicher Gegenstände (Wörter, Sätze, Texte) als Gegenstand sprachwissenschaftlicher Analyse
Corpus desk
Index DE-korpus · Korpus · German
Korpus · rank #29,199 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,199
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kontrabass
Nearest frequency peer: Kontrabass (-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 „Korpus“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Kontaktaufn…
Kontaktaufnahme
70,805 corpus weight
- kontern
kontern
70,804 corpus weight
- Kontrabass
Kontrabass
70,803 corpus weight
- Korpus
Korpus
70,802 corpus weight
- kreuzt
kreuzt
70,801 corpus weight
- kribbeln
kribbeln
70,800 corpus weight
What this shows „Korpus“ 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 | Korpus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɔʁpʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Korpus“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Korpus (IPA [ˈkɔʁpʊs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,199 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Korpus, with forms such as "kkorpus", "koprus", and "korppus". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Kraus", "Korps", "Körper", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Korpus, spelled K-O-R-P-U-S.
Definition
- 1Sammlung sprachlicher Gegenstände (Wörter, Sätze, Texte) als Gegenstand sprachwissenschaftlicher Analyse
- 2Resonanzkörper eines Saiteninstruments
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Korpus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zum Korpus des Wortschatz-Lexikons tragen viele Tageszeitungen bei.
„Das Korpus umfasst damit auch Dokumente, deren Entstehung bereits einige Jahre zurückliegt, um Vergleiche sowohl auf synchroner als auch auf diachroner Ebene anstellen zu können.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kkorpus
- koprus
- korppus
- korpsu
- korpuss
- korrpus
- korups
- kropus
- okrpus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Korpus - 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 "Korpus", 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).