road
[rəʊd]
The verdict
“road” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,385. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,385
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Straße
Corpus desk
Index DE-road · road · German
road · rank #7,385 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,385
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Rezension
Nearest frequency peer: Rezension (-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 „road“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Raketen
Raketen
92,619 corpus weight
- Reichtum
Reichtum
92,618 corpus weight
- Rezension
Rezension
92,617 corpus weight
- road
road
92,616 corpus weight
- Rundfunk
Rundfunk
92,615 corpus weight
- Rückseite
Rückseite
92,614 corpus weight
What this shows „road“ 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 | road |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [rəʊd] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „road“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around road (IPA [rəʊd]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,385 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Straße".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for road, with forms such as "orad", "raod", and "roadd". 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, "rot", "ron", "rob", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is road, spelled R-O-A-D.
Definition
- 1Straße
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how road appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He had to walk in the road.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orad
- raod
- roadd
- roda
- rroad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of road - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "road", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).