pesto
[pɛsto]
The verdict
“pesto” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,380. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,380
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pesto
Corpus desk
Index DE-pesto · pesto · German
pesto · rank #35,380 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,380
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH pharmazeutisc…
Nearest frequency peer: pharmazeutischen (+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 „pesto“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- pelle
pelle
64,624 corpus weight
- pesto
pesto
64,621 corpus weight
- pharmazeuti…
pharmazeutischen
64,620 corpus weight
- physiologis…
physiologischen
64,619 corpus weight
- Pikachu
Pikachu
64,618 corpus weight
- Pokalspiel
Pokalspiel
64,617 corpus weight
What this shows „pesto“ 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 | pesto |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɛsto] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „pesto“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around pesto (IPA [pɛsto]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,380 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pesto".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pesto, with forms such as "epsto", "pesot", and "pessto". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "post", "Petr", "Porto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is pesto, spelled P-E-S-T-O.
Definition
- 1Pesto
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsto
- pesot
- pessto
- pestto
- petso
- ppesto
- pseto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pesto - 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 "pesto", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).