Reck
[ʁɛk]
The verdict
“Reck” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #27,465 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #27,465
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Turngerät für Männer, das aus zwei senkrechten Stangen und einer Querstange besteht
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 | Reck |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁɛk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Reck” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Reck is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁɛk]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,465 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Turngerät für Männer, das aus zwei senkrechten Stangen und einer Querstange besteht".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Reck, with forms such as "erck", "rcek", and "recck". 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, "red", "reg", "REX", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Reck, spelled R-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1Turngerät für Männer, das aus zwei senkrechten Stangen und einer Querstange besteht
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erck,rcek,recck,reckk,rekc,rreck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Reck - 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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Using “Reck”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-E-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʁɛk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “red” - see the side-by-side comparison. Reck vs red
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.