rays
[ɹeɪz]
The verdict
“rays” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,153. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,153
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs ray
Corpus desk
Index DE-rays · rays · German
rays · rank #37,153 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,153
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH reaktionäre
Nearest frequency peer: reaktionäre (+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 „rays“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Raffinerie
Raffinerie
62,852 corpus weight
- rammte
rammte
62,851 corpus weight
- rays
rays
62,848 corpus weight
- reaktionäre
reaktionäre
62,847 corpus weight
- reizvolle
reizvolle
62,844 corpus weight
- Religiosität
Religiosität
62,843 corpus weight
What this shows „rays“ 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 | rays |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɹeɪz] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „rays“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around rays (IPA [ɹeɪz]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,153 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs ray".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for rays, with forms such as "arys", "rasy", and "rayss". 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, "Rs", "res", "RSS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is rays, spelled R-A-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs ray
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arys
- rasy
- rayss
- rayys
- rrays
- ryas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rays - 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
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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).