laws
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The verdict
“laws” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,251. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,251
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs law
Corpus desk
Index DE-laws · laws · German
laws · rank #38,251 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,251
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH langsames
Nearest frequency peer: langsames (-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 „laws“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Landesrat
Landesrat
61,753 corpus weight
- langfristig…
langfristiges
61,752 corpus weight
- langsames
langsames
61,751 corpus weight
- laws
laws
61,750 corpus weight
- Lebensabend
Lebensabend
61,749 corpus weight
- Lebensgrund…
Lebensgrundlage
61,748 corpus weight
What this shows „laws“ 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 | laws |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „laws“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around laws (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,251 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs law".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for laws, with forms such as "alws", "lasw", and "lawss". 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, "LW", "Los", "LKW", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is laws, spelled L-A-W-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs law
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alws
- lasw
- lawss
- lawws
- llaws
- lwas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laws - 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
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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).