points
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The verdict
“points” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,700
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs point
Corpus desk
Index DE-points · points · German
points · rank #20,700 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,700
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Plauen
Nearest frequency peer: Plauen (-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 „points“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Pickel
Pickel
79,304 corpus weight
- Plauen
Plauen
79,302 corpus weight
- points
points
79,301 corpus weight
- Politikers
Politikers
79,300 corpus weight
- Polizeibeam…
Polizeibeamte
79,299 corpus weight
- Potenz
Potenz
79,298 corpus weight
What this shows „points“ 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 | points |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „points“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around points (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,700 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs point".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for points, with forms such as "opints", "pionts", and "poinnts". 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, "pont", "pons", "print", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is points, spelled P-O-I-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs point
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opints
- pionts
- poinnts
- poinst
- pointss
- pointts
- poitns
- ponits
- ppoints
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of points - 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 "points", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).