luis
[ˈluis]
The verdict
“luis” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,126. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,126
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs lui
Corpus desk
Index DE-luis · luis · German
luis · rank #10,126 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,126
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH kühlen
Nearest frequency peer: kühlen (-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 „luis“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Krankenschw…
Krankenschwester
89,878 corpus weight
- Köhler
Köhler
89,877 corpus weight
- kühlen
kühlen
89,876 corpus weight
- luis
luis
89,875 corpus weight
- machbar
machbar
89,873 corpus weight
- Massage
Massage
89,872 corpus weight
What this shows „luis“ 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 | luis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈluis] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „luis“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around luis (IPA [ˈluis]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,126 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs lui".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for luis, with forms such as "lius", "lluis", and "luiss". 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, "Lux", "luz", "Lust", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is luis, spelled L-U-I-S.
Definition
- 1Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs lui
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lius
- lluis
- luiss
- lusi
- ulis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of luis - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "luis", 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).