lynch
[lɪnʃ]
The verdict
“lynch” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #26,509. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,509
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lynchen
Corpus desk
Index DE-lynch · lynch · German
lynch · rank #26,509 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,509
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH lunch
Nearest frequency peer: lunch (-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 „lynch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Lotterie
Lotterie
73,496 corpus weight
- LPs
LPs
73,495 corpus weight
- lunch
lunch
73,493 corpus weight
- lynch
lynch
73,492 corpus weight
- lästige
lästige
73,491 corpus weight
- Maastricht
Maastricht
73,489 corpus weight
What this shows „lynch“ 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 | lynch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [lɪnʃ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „lynch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around lynch (IPA [lɪnʃ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,509 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "lynchen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for lynch, with forms such as "llynch", "lnych", and "lycnh". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Lynn", "Loch", "lach", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is lynch, spelled L-Y-N-C-H.
Definition
- 1lynchen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llynch
- lnych
- lycnh
- lyncch
- lynchh
- lynhc
- lynnch
- lyynch
- ylnch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lynch - 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 "lynch", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).