lösch
[lœʃ]
The verdict
“lösch” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,332
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs löschen
Corpus desk
Index DE-losch · lösch · German
lösch · rank #20,332 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,332
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lv
Nearest frequency peer: Lv (-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 „lösch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Luthers
Luthers
79,671 corpus weight
- Lv
Lv
79,670 corpus weight
- lösch
lösch
79,669 corpus weight
- Machenschaf…
Machenschaften
79,668 corpus weight
- magister
magister
79,667 corpus weight
- Magnet
Magnet
79,666 corpus weight
What this shows „lösch“ 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 | lösch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [lœʃ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „lösch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around lösch (IPA [lœʃ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,332 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs löschen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for lösch, with forms such as "llösch", "lsöch", and "löcsh". 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, "löst", "Lose", "löste", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is lösch, spelled L-Ö-S-C-H.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs löschen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llösch
- lsöch
- löcsh
- löscch
- löschh
- löshc
- lössch
- ölsch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lösch - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "lösch", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).