plaza
[ˈplæzə]
The verdict
“plaza” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,800
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - städtischer öffentlicher Platz, meist an ein öffentliches Gebäude angrenzend
Corpus desk
Index DE-plaza · plaza · German
plaza · rank #16,800 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,800
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pipeline
Nearest frequency peer: Pipeline (-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 „plaza“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Pavillon
Pavillon
83,204 corpus weight
- Pazifik
Pazifik
83,203 corpus weight
- Pipeline
Pipeline
83,202 corpus weight
- plaza
plaza
83,201 corpus weight
- plötzlichen
plötzlichen
83,200 corpus weight
- population
population
83,199 corpus weight
What this shows „plaza“ 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 | plaza |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈplæzə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „plaza“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around plaza (IPA [ˈplæzə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,800 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaza, with forms such as "lpaza", "palza", and "plaaz". 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, "PLZ", "Prada", "Plan", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is plaza, spelled P-L-A-Z-A.
Definition
- 1städtischer öffentlicher Platz, meist an ein öffentliches Gebäude angrenzend
- 2Gebäude mit mehreren öffentlichen Einrichtungen, z. B. Geschäften, Banken, Restaurants
- 3Hotel-, Wohn- oder Bürogebäude, meist Hochhaus, in dem sich im Erdgeschoss öffentliche oder halböffentliche Einrichtungen befinden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plaza appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The bank is located next to a large plaza with a fountain.
the Continental Grand Plaza building
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaza
- palza
- plaaz
- plazza
- pllaza
- plzaa
- pplaza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaza - 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 "plaza", 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).