Massage
[maˈsaːʒə]
The verdict
“Massage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,129. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,129
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit den Händen oder Füßen, mit einem Wasserstrahl, mit ätherischen Ölen oder diversen Geräten erfolgte Heil- oder Entspannungsbehandlung durch Drücken, Klopfen, Kneten, Streichen, Ziehen verschiede...
Corpus desk
Index DE-massage · Massage · German
Massage · rank #10,129 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,129
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH machbar
Nearest frequency peer: machbar (-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 „Massage“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- luis
luis
89,875 corpus weight
- machbar
machbar
89,873 corpus weight
- Massage
Massage
89,872 corpus weight
- Maurer
Maurer
89,871 corpus weight
- Meeting
Meeting
89,870 corpus weight
- Mehrzahl
Mehrzahl
89,869 corpus weight
What this shows „Massage“ 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 | Massage |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈsaːʒə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Massage“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Massage (IPA [maˈsaːʒə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,129 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mit den Händen oder Füßen, mit einem Wasserstrahl, mit ätherischen Ölen oder diversen Geräten erfolgte Heil- oder Entspannungsbehandlung durch Drücken, Klopfen, Kneten, Streichen, Ziehen verschiede...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Massage, with forms such as "amssage", "masage", and "masasge". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Masse", "massig", "massive", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Massage, spelled M-A-S-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1mit den Händen oder Füßen, mit einem Wasserstrahl, mit ätherischen Ölen oder diversen Geräten erfolgte Heil- oder Entspannungsbehandlung durch Drücken, Klopfen, Kneten, Streichen, Ziehen verschiedener Körperregionen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Massage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ähnlich wie Akupunktur behandelt auch die Akupressur bestimmte Energiepunkte – aber nicht mit Nadeln, sondern mit einer gezielten Massage.“
„Wenn man den Frauen Glauben schenkt, kann man getrost die klassische Massage (schwedische Massage), die Ganz-/Teilkörpermassage, die Ayurveda-Massage (Abhyanga), die Bürstenmassage, die Esalen-Massage, die ganzheitliche Massage, die InTouch-Massage, die Klangmassage, die Lomi-Lomi-Nui-Massage (Romi, Kahuna Bodywork, Ma Uri, Tempelmassage), die Ölmassage…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amssage
- masage
- masasge
- massaeg
- massagge
- massgae
- maßage
- mmassage
- msasage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Massage - 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 "Massage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).