pick
[pɪk]
The verdict
“pick” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,895
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” 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 picken
Corpus desk
Index DE-pick · pick · German
pick · rank #14,895 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,895
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Phantom
Nearest frequency peer: Phantom (-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 „pick“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Petersen
Petersen
85,109 corpus weight
- Pfannkuchen
Pfannkuchen
85,108 corpus weight
- Phantom
Phantom
85,107 corpus weight
- pick
pick
85,106 corpus weight
- Plural
Plural
85,105 corpus weight
- portrait
portrait
85,104 corpus weight
What this shows „pick“ 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 | pick |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɪk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „pick“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pick (IPA [pɪk]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,895 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs picken".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pick, with forms such as "ipck", "pcik", and "picck". 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, "PK", "PIN", "PKK", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is pick, spelled P-I-C-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs picken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipck
- pcik
- picck
- pickk
- pikc
- ppick
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pick - 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 "pick", 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).