maximum
[mak.si.mɔm]
The verdict
“maximum” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,480
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - größtmöglich
Corpus desk
Index DE-maximum · maximum · German
maximum · rank #11,480 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,480
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Matthäus
Nearest frequency peer: Matthäus (-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 „maximum“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Lügenpresse
Lügenpresse
88,524 corpus weight
- magnus
magnus
88,523 corpus weight
- Matthäus
Matthäus
88,522 corpus weight
- maximum
maximum
88,521 corpus weight
- medizinisch
medizinisch
88,520 corpus weight
- meiden
meiden
88,519 corpus weight
What this shows „maximum“ 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 | maximum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [mak.si.mɔm] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „maximum“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around maximum (IPA [mak.si.mɔm]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,480 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "größtmöglich".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for maximum, with forms such as "amximum", "maixmum", and "maximmu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Minimum", "Maxim", "Maxime", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is maximum, spelled M-A-X-I-M-U-M.
Definition
- 1größtmöglich
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amximum
- maixmum
- maximmu
- maximmum
- maximumm
- maxiumm
- maxmium
- maxximum
- mmaximum
- mxaimum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maximum - 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 "maximum", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).