Quarks
[kvaʁks]
The verdict
“Quarks” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,400. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,400
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Quark
Corpus desk
Index DE-quarks · Quarks · German
Quarks · rank #48,400 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,400
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH Quellwasser
Nearest frequency peer: Quellwasser (+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 „Quarks“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- produktives
produktives
51,605 corpus weight
- propos
propos
51,604 corpus weight
- Prävalenz
Prävalenz
51,603 corpus weight
- Quarks
Quarks
51,601 corpus weight
- Quellwasser
Quellwasser
51,600 corpus weight
- radial
radial
51,599 corpus weight
What this shows „Quarks“ 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 | Quarks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kvaʁks] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Quarks“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Quarks (IPA [kvaʁks]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,400 among 216 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Quark".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Quarks, with forms such as "qaurks", "qquarks", and "quakrs". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Quarz", "Quark", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Quarks, spelled Q-U-A-R-K-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Quark
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaurks
- qquarks
- quakrs
- quarkks
- quarkss
- quarrks
- quarsk
- quraks
- uqarks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Quarks - 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 "Quarks", 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).