reg
[ʁeːk]
The verdict
“reg” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,613) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,613
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs regen
Corpus desk
Index DE-reg · reg · German
reg · rank #8,613 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,613
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Provinzen
Nearest frequency peer: Provinzen (-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 „reg“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Porträt
Porträt
91,391 corpus weight
- prime
prime
91,390 corpus weight
- Provinzen
Provinzen
91,389 corpus weight
- reg
reg
91,388 corpus weight
- regulären
regulären
91,387 corpus weight
- Reisende
Reisende
91,386 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „reg“ 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 | reg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁeːk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „reg“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for reg is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rn", "Rs", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ʁeːk]. Frequency #8,613 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs regen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for reg in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rn", "Rs", "RV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is reg, spelled R-E-G.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs regen
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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