messenger
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The verdict
“messenger” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,875
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die Nachrichten überbringt
Corpus desk
Index DE-messenger · messenger · German
messenger · rank #14,875 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,875
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Meilenstein
Nearest frequency peer: Meilenstein (-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 „messenger“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- mathematisc…
mathematischen
85,129 corpus weight
- Meeres
Meeres
85,128 corpus weight
- Meilenstein
Meilenstein
85,127 corpus weight
- messenger
messenger
85,126 corpus weight
- Mitspieler
Mitspieler
85,124 corpus weight
- Moscheen
Moscheen
85,123 corpus weight
What this shows „messenger“ 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 | messenger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „messenger“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around messenger (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,875 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for messenger, with forms such as "emssenger", "mesenger", and "mesesnger". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Messner", "Messungen", "of", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 messenger, spelled M-E-S-S-E-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die Nachrichten überbringt
- 2Leine, mit der Trossen beispielsweise von einem Schiffsdeck an ein Pier gezogen werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how messenger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A third letter Ravenswood addressed to Lucy, and the messenger was instructed to find some secret and secure means of delivering it into her own hands.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emssenger
- mesenger
- mesesnger
- messegner
- messenegr
- messengerr
- messengger
- messengre
- messennger
- messneger
- meßenger
- mmessenger
- msesenger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of messenger - 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 "messenger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).