lives
[laɪvz]
The verdict
“lives” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,669
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs life
Corpus desk
Index DE-lives · lives · German
lives · rank #30,669 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,669
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH losgegangen
Nearest frequency peer: losgegangen (+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 „lives“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- levels
levels
69,336 corpus weight
- Liebesleben
Liebesleben
69,334 corpus weight
- lives
lives
69,332 corpus weight
- losgegangen
losgegangen
69,331 corpus weight
- LPG
LPG
69,330 corpus weight
- Lulu
Lulu
69,329 corpus weight
What this shows „lives“ 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 | lives |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [laɪvz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „lives“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lives (IPA [laɪvz]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,669 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs life".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lives, with forms such as "ilves", "lievs", and "livess". 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, "love", "Lover", "Loses", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is lives, spelled L-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs life
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilves
- lievs
- livess
- livse
- livves
- llives
- lvies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lives - 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 "lives", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).