reed
[riːd]
The verdict
“reed” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,037) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,037
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bestimmtes Gras; Schilf
Corpus desk
Index DE-reed · reed · German
reed · rank #18,037 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,037
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH reader
Nearest frequency peer: reader (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „reed“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- rauche
rauche
81,967 corpus weight
- RC
RC
81,966 corpus weight
- reader
reader
81,965 corpus weight
- reed
reed
81,964 corpus weight
- registrierte
registrierte
81,963 corpus weight
- reibungslos
reibungslos
81,962 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „reed“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | reed |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [riːd] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „reed“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for reed is neighbouring look-alikes ("reg", "REX", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [riːd]. Frequency #18,037 among 2,984 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for reed, including "reedd" and "rreed". 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, "reg", "REX", "res", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is reed, spelled R-E-E-D.
Definition
- 1bestimmtes Gras; Schilf
- 2bestimmtes Teil eines Blasinstruments; Rohrblatt
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- reedd
- rreed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reed - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).