playa
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The verdict
“playa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,138. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,138
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in ein Gewässer hineinragender, langgestreckter, flacher, sandiger oder kiesiger Streifen Land, besonders der bespülte Saum des Meeres
Corpus desk
Index DE-playa · playa · German
playa · rank #44,138 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,138
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH platinum
Nearest frequency peer: platinum (-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 „playa“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- pipe
pipe
55,866 corpus weight
- Plastikmüll
Plastikmüll
55,865 corpus weight
- platinum
platinum
55,864 corpus weight
- playa
playa
55,863 corpus weight
- Pluralismus
Pluralismus
55,862 corpus weight
- pokern
pokern
55,861 corpus weight
What this shows „playa“ 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 | playa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „playa“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around playa (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,138 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "in ein Gewässer hineinragender, langgestreckter, flacher, sandiger oder kiesiger Streifen Land, besonders der bespülte Saum des Meeres".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for playa, with forms such as "lpaya", "palya", and "plaay". 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, "plaza", "plays", "Prada", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is playa, spelled P-L-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1in ein Gewässer hineinragender, langgestreckter, flacher, sandiger oder kiesiger Streifen Land, besonders der bespülte Saum des Meeres
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how playa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« En estiu as playas son plenas de chen nadando e prenendo ro sol. »
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaya
- palya
- plaay
- playya
- pllaya
- plyaa
- pplaya
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of playa - 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 "playa", 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).