Microsoft
[ˈmaɪ̯kʁosɔft]
The verdict
“Microsoft” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,058. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,058
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - ein weltweit tätiges, sehr großes Softwareunternehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-microsoft · Microsoft · German
Microsoft · rank #4,058 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #4,058
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Mittag
Nearest frequency peer: Mittag (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Microsoft”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Lokale
Lokale
95,946 corpus weight
- Microsoft
Microsoft
95,943 corpus weight
- Mittag
Mittag
95,942 corpus weight
- Motiv
Motiv
95,941 corpus weight
- Muster
Muster
95,940 corpus weight
- national
national
95,939 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Microsoft” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Microsoft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaɪ̯kʁosɔft] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Microsoft” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Microsoft (IPA [ˈmaɪ̯kʁosɔft]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,058 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Microsoft, with forms such as "imcrosoft", "mcirosoft", and "miccrosoft". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Microsofts", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Microsoft, spelled M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T.
Definition
- 1ein weltweit tätiges, sehr großes Softwareunternehmen
- 2ein Unternehmen mit ähnlich marktbeherrschender Stellung wie [1]
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Microsoft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Windows-Betriebssysteme von Microsoft stehen in Konkurrenz zu freien, kostenlosen und quelloffenen Betriebssystemen.
„Es wird keinen Tag in meinem Leben geben, an dem ich nicht an Microsoft denken werde“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imcrosoft
- mcirosoft
- miccrosoft
- micorsoft
- microosft
- microsfot
- microsofft
- microsoftt
- microsotf
- microssoft
- micrrosoft
- micrsooft
- mircosoft
- mmicrosoft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Microsoft - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Microsoft", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.