public
[ˈpʌblɪk]
The verdict
“public” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,522. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,522
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - öffentlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-public · public · German
public · rank #5,522 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,522
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH problemlos
Nearest frequency peer: problemlos (-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 „public“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- passende
passende
94,482 corpus weight
- Pflanze
Pflanze
94,481 corpus weight
- problemlos
problemlos
94,480 corpus weight
- public
public
94,479 corpus weight
- queen
queen
94,478 corpus weight
- Reinhard
Reinhard
94,477 corpus weight
What this shows „public“ 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 | public |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈpʌblɪk] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „public“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around public (IPA [ˈpʌblɪk]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,522 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "öffentlich".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for public, with forms such as "pbulic", "ppublic", and "pubblic". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Pulli", "publik", "Pullis", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is public, spelled P-U-B-L-I-C.
Definition
- 1öffentlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how public appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pbulic
- ppublic
- pubblic
- pubilc
- publci
- publicc
- publlic
- pulbic
- upblic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of public - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "public", 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).