Punsch
[pʊnʃ]
The verdict
“Punsch” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #33,245. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,245
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (zumeist heißes) alkoholisches Mischgetränk aus Arrak (oder Rum) mit Wasser (oder Tee beziehungsweise Wein) und Zitrone (oder Limette beziehungsweise Zitronen- oder Limettensaft), Zucker sowie Gewü...
Corpus desk
Index DE-punsch · Punsch · German
Punsch · rank #33,245 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,245
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH punktet
Nearest frequency peer: punktet (-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 „Punsch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Psychopath
Psychopath
66,759 corpus weight
- publizierten
publizierten
66,758 corpus weight
- punktet
punktet
66,757 corpus weight
- Punsch
Punsch
66,756 corpus weight
- qualifizier…
qualifizierter
66,755 corpus weight
- Rankings
Rankings
66,753 corpus weight
What this shows „Punsch“ 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 | Punsch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʊnʃ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Punsch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Punsch (IPA [pʊnʃ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,245 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(zumeist heißes) alkoholisches Mischgetränk aus Arrak (oder Rum) mit Wasser (oder Tee beziehungsweise Wein) und Zitrone (oder Limette beziehungsweise Zitronen- oder Limettensaft), Zucker sowie Gewü...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Punsch, with forms such as "pnusch", "ppunsch", and "puncsh". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "push", "Putsch", "punch", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Punsch, spelled P-U-N-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1(zumeist heißes) alkoholisches Mischgetränk aus Arrak (oder Rum) mit Wasser (oder Tee beziehungsweise Wein) und Zitrone (oder Limette beziehungsweise Zitronen- oder Limettensaft), Zucker sowie Gewürzen (sowie in zahlreichen – auch alkoholfreien – Varianten)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Punsch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Madam Melina rezitirte einige erhabene Gedichte, und ihr Mann, der im Rauſche nicht ſehr liebenswürdig war, fing an auf die ſchlechte Bereitung des Punſches zu ſchelten, verſicherte daß er ein Feſt ganz anders einzurichten verſtehe, und ward zuletzt, als Laertes Stillſchweigen gebot, immer gröber und lauter, ſo daß dieſer, ohne ſich lange zu bedenken, ih…
„[…]; aber der Regiſtrator Heerbrand griff in die tiefe Taſche ſeines Matins und brachte in drei Repriſen eine Flaſche Arrak, Citronen und Zucker zum Vorſchein. Kaum war eine halbe Stunde vergangen, ſo dampfte ein koͤſtlicher Punſch auf Paulmanns Tiſche.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pnusch
- ppunsch
- puncsh
- punnsch
- punscch
- punschh
- punshc
- punssch
- pusnch
- upnsch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Punsch - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Punsch", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).