lets
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The verdict
“lets” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,317. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,317
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs let
Corpus desk
Index DE-lets · lets · German
lets · rank #18,317 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,317
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH lest
Nearest frequency peer: lest (-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 „lets“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- lauschen
lauschen
81,687 corpus weight
- Lebensgesch…
Lebensgeschichte
81,686 corpus weight
- lest
lest
81,685 corpus weight
- lets
lets
81,684 corpus weight
- Lichte
Lichte
81,682 corpus weight
- lineare
lineare
81,681 corpus weight
What this shows „lets“ 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 | lets |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „lets“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around lets (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,317 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs let".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for lets, with forms such as "elts", "letss", and "letts". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Los", "LTE", "lex", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is lets, spelled L-E-T-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs let
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elts
- letss
- letts
- llets
- ltes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lets - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "lets", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).