rule
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The verdict
“rule” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,762. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,762
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Regel, Vorschrift
Corpus desk
Index DE-rule · rule · German
rule · rank #31,762 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,762
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Rudolstadt
Nearest frequency peer: Rudolstadt (-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 „rule“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- rohen
rohen
68,242 corpus weight
- rosig
rosig
68,241 corpus weight
- Rudolstadt
Rudolstadt
68,240 corpus weight
- rule
rule
68,239 corpus weight
- rätselhaft
rätselhaft
68,238 corpus weight
- rätselhafte
rätselhafte
68,237 corpus weight
What this shows „rule“ 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 | rule |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „rule“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around rule (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,762 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Regel, Vorschrift".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rule, with forms such as "rlue", "rrule", and "ruel". 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, "Rum", "run", "Rus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 rule, spelled R-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Regel, Vorschrift
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rlue
- rrule
- ruel
- rulle
- urle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rule - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rule", 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).