point
[pɔɪ̯nt]
The verdict
“point” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,839. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,839
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Punkt
Corpus desk
Index DE-point · point · German
point · rank #6,839 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,839
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Persönlichkei…
Nearest frequency peer: Persönlichkeiten (-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 „point“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Neuigkeiten
Neuigkeiten
93,165 corpus weight
- Palast
Palast
93,164 corpus weight
- Persönlichk…
Persönlichkeiten
93,163 corpus weight
- point
point
93,162 corpus weight
- Reformen
Reformen
93,161 corpus weight
- Religionen
Religionen
93,160 corpus weight
What this shows „point“ 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 | point |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɔɪ̯nt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „point“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around point (IPA [pɔɪ̯nt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,839 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for point, with forms such as "opint", "piont", and "poinnt". 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, "pot", "post", "pony", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is point, spelled P-O-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Punkt
- 2Spitze (Kinn, Landes-, Messers-)
- 3Fleck, Ort
- 4Einzelheit
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opint
- piont
- poinnt
- pointt
- poitn
- ponit
- ppoint
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of point - 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 "point", 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).