plans
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The verdict
“plans” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,673. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,673
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs plan
Corpus desk
Index DE-plans · plans · German
plans · rank #19,673 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,673
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH planer
Nearest frequency peer: planer (-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 „plans“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- PHP
PHP
80,331 corpus weight
- pius
pius
80,330 corpus weight
- planer
planer
80,329 corpus weight
- plans
plans
80,328 corpus weight
- Podiumsdisk…
Podiumsdiskussion
80,327 corpus weight
- polizeiliche
polizeiliche
80,326 corpus weight
What this shows „plans“ 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 | plans |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „plans“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around plans (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,673 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs plan".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for plans, with forms such as "lpans", "palns", and "planns". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plus", "play", "pons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is plans, spelled P-L-A-N-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs plan
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpans
- palns
- planns
- planss
- plasn
- pllans
- plnas
- pplans
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plans - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "plans", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).