patches
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The verdict
“patches” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #40,746. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,746
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs patch
Corpus desk
Index DE-patches · patches · German
patches · rank #40,746 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,746
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH partielle
Nearest frequency peer: partielle (-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 „patches“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Palladium
Palladium
59,258 corpus weight
- Paparazzi
Paparazzi
59,257 corpus weight
- partielle
partielle
59,256 corpus weight
- patches
patches
59,255 corpus weight
- Peinlichkeit
Peinlichkeit
59,254 corpus weight
- Penetration
Penetration
59,253 corpus weight
What this shows „patches“ 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 | patches |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „patches“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around patches (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,746 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs patch".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for patches, with forms such as "aptches", "pacthes", and "patcches". 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, "Pathos", "TO", "video", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is patches, spelled P-A-T-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs patch
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptches
- pacthes
- patcches
- patcehs
- patchess
- patchhes
- patchse
- pathces
- pattches
- ppatches
- ptaches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patches - 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 "patches", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).