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The verdict
“records” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,686. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,686
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs record
Corpus desk
Index DE-records · records · German
records · rank #19,686 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,686
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH realistischen
Nearest frequency peer: realistischen (-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 „records“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Putzfrau
Putzfrau
80,318 corpus weight
- Quittung
Quittung
80,317 corpus weight
- realistisch…
realistischen
80,316 corpus weight
- records
records
80,315 corpus weight
- Reflex
Reflex
80,314 corpus weight
- refrain
refrain
80,313 corpus weight
What this shows „records“ 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 | records |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „records“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around records (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,686 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs record".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for records, with forms such as "ercords", "rceords", and "reccords". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rekord", "Rekorde", "reports", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is records, spelled R-E-C-O-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs record
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercords
- rceords
- reccords
- recodrs
- recordds
- recordss
- recorrds
- recorsd
- recrods
- reocrds
- rrecords
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of records - 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 "records", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).