match
[matʃ]
The verdict
“match” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,219. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,219
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Match; Wettspiel; Wettkampf
Corpus desk
Index DE-match · match · German
match · rank #6,219 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,219
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Lizenz
Nearest frequency peer: Lizenz (-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 „match“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- letztere
letztere
93,785 corpus weight
- Linux
Linux
93,784 corpus weight
- Lizenz
Lizenz
93,783 corpus weight
- match
match
93,782 corpus weight
- Mindestlohn
Mindestlohn
93,781 corpus weight
- Möbel
Möbel
93,780 corpus weight
What this shows „match“ 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 | match |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [matʃ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „match“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around match (IPA [matʃ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,219 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Match; Wettspiel; Wettkampf".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for match, with forms such as "amtch", "matcch", and "matchh". 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, "mich", "matt", "much", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is match, spelled M-A-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Match; Wettspiel; Wettkampf
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtch
- matcch
- matchh
- mathc
- mattch
- mmatch
- mtach
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of match - 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 "match", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).