raps
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The verdict
“raps” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,016
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rap
Corpus desk
Index DE-raps · raps · German
raps · rank #27,016 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,016
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH rauen
Nearest frequency peer: rauen (+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 „raps“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- pushen
pushen
72,990 corpus weight
- Ramadan
Ramadan
72,988 corpus weight
- raps
raps
72,985 corpus weight
- rauen
rauen
72,984 corpus weight
- reagiere
reagiere
72,983 corpus weight
- Regenwasser
Regenwasser
72,982 corpus weight
What this shows „raps“ 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 | raps |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „raps“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around raps (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,016 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rap".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for raps, with forms such as "arps", "rapps", and "rapss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rs", "Rat", "ray", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is raps, spelled R-A-P-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rap
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arps
- rapps
- rapss
- rasp
- rpas
- rraps
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raps - 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 "raps", 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).