relax
[ʁiˈlɛks]
The verdict
“relax” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,589
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs relaxen
Corpus desk
Index DE-relax · relax · German
relax · rank #36,589 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,589
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Reno
Nearest frequency peer: Reno (+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 „relax“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- reichhaltig…
reichhaltigen
63,416 corpus weight
- Reiser
Reiser
63,414 corpus weight
- relax
relax
63,412 corpus weight
- Reno
Reno
63,411 corpus weight
- Renovierung…
Renovierungsarbeiten
63,410 corpus weight
- Repressalien
Repressalien
63,409 corpus weight
What this shows „relax“ 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 | relax |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁiˈlɛks] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „relax“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around relax (IPA [ʁiˈlɛks]), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,589 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs relaxen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for relax, with forms such as "erlax", "realx", and "relaxx". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "REX", "remix", "Rolex", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 relax, spelled R-E-L-A-X.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs relaxen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erlax
- realx
- relaxx
- rellax
- relxa
- rleax
- rrelax
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of relax - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).