natives
[naˈtiːvəs]
The verdict
“natives” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,924
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs nativ
Corpus desk
Index DE-natives · natives · German
natives · rank #49,924 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,924
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Neugeborenes
Nearest frequency peer: Neugeborenes (+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 „natives“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- nachweisbare
nachweisbare
50,081 corpus weight
- nachweist
nachweist
50,080 corpus weight
- nagen
nagen
50,079 corpus weight
- natives
natives
50,077 corpus weight
- Neugeborenes
Neugeborenes
50,076 corpus weight
- neuwertig
neuwertig
50,074 corpus weight
What this shows „natives“ 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 | natives |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [naˈtiːvəs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „natives“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around natives (IPA [naˈtiːvəs]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,924 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for natives, with forms such as "antives", "naitves", and "natievs". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "negatives", "naive", "native", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is natives, spelled N-A-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs nativ
- 2Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs nativ
- 3Nominativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs nativ
- 4Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs nativ
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- antives
- naitves
- natievs
- nativess
- nativse
- nativves
- nattives
- natvies
- nnatives
- ntaives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of natives - 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 "natives", 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).