pump
[pʊmp]
The verdict
“pump” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,885. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,885
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pumpen
Corpus desk
Index DE-pump · pump · German
pump · rank #24,885 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,885
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH publizieren
Nearest frequency peer: publizieren (-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 „pump“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- protestanti…
protestantische
75,119 corpus weight
- Prozessoren
Prozessoren
75,118 corpus weight
- publizieren
publizieren
75,117 corpus weight
- pump
pump
75,116 corpus weight
- Quadratkilo…
Quadratkilometer
75,115 corpus weight
- quantitative
quantitative
75,114 corpus weight
What this shows „pump“ 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 | pump |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pʊmp] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „pump“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pump (IPA [pʊmp]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,885 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pumpen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pump, with forms such as "pmup", "ppump", and "pummp". 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, "PUR", "put", "PvP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is pump, spelled P-U-M-P.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pumpen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pmup
- ppump
- pummp
- pumpp
- pupm
- upmp
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pump - 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 "pump", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).