might
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The verdict
“might” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,168. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,168
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs may
Corpus desk
Index DE-might · might · German
might · rank #32,168 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,168
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH minimiert
Nearest frequency peer: minimiert (+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 „might“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Metallen
Metallen
67,836 corpus weight
- Meteorologie
Meteorologie
67,835 corpus weight
- might
might
67,833 corpus weight
- minimiert
minimiert
67,832 corpus weight
- Missgeschick
Missgeschick
67,831 corpus weight
- mitschnitt
mitschnitt
67,830 corpus weight
What this shows „might“ 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 | might |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „might“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around might (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,168 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs may".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for might, with forms such as "imght", "mgiht", and "migght". 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, "mit", "Mist", "mint", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 might, spelled M-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs may
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imght
- mgiht
- migght
- mighht
- mightt
- migth
- mihgt
- mmight
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of might - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "might", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).