neck
[nɛk]
The verdict
“neck” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #45,472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,472
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs necken
Corpus desk
Index DE-neck · neck · German
neck · rank #45,472 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,472
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH negativem
Nearest frequency peer: negativem (+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 „neck“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- museo
museo
54,535 corpus weight
- naheliegend…
naheliegenden
54,532 corpus weight
- Napalm
Napalm
54,531 corpus weight
- neck
neck
54,529 corpus weight
- negativem
negativem
54,528 corpus weight
- Niederschla…
Niederschlagung
54,524 corpus weight
What this shows „neck“ 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 | neck |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [nɛk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „neck“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around neck (IPA [nɛk]), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,472 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs necken".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for neck, with forms such as "enck", "ncek", and "necck". 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, "neu", "new", "nen", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is neck, spelled N-E-C-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs necken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enck
- ncek
- necck
- neckk
- nekc
- nneck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of neck - 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 "neck", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).