Lucy
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The verdict
“Lucy” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,697. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,697
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-lucy · Lucy · German
Lucy · rank #11,697 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,697
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH linden
Nearest frequency peer: linden (-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 „Lucy“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- liberal
liberal
88,307 corpus weight
- Lieblings
Lieblings
88,306 corpus weight
- linden
linden
88,305 corpus weight
- Lucy
Lucy
88,304 corpus weight
- Materials
Materials
88,303 corpus weight
- meinetwegen
meinetwegen
88,302 corpus weight
What this shows „Lucy“ 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 | Lucy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Lucy“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Lucy (IPA […]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,697 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "weiblicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lucy, with forms such as "lcuy", "llucy", and "luccy". 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, "lud", "Lux", "luz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Lucy, spelled L-U-C-Y.
Definition
- 1weiblicher Vorname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcuy
- llucy
- luccy
- lucyy
- luyc
- ulcy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lucy - 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 "Lucy", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).