Saigon
[zaɪ̯ˈɡɔn]
The verdict
“Saigon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #42,104. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,104
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - früherer Name von Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt
Corpus desk
Index DE-saigon · Saigon · German
Saigon · rank #42,104 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,104
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Safran
Nearest frequency peer: Safran (-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 „Saigon“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- sac
sac
57,900 corpus weight
- sacht
sacht
57,899 corpus weight
- Safran
Safran
57,898 corpus weight
- Saigon
Saigon
57,897 corpus weight
- Salben
Salben
57,896 corpus weight
- samples
samples
57,894 corpus weight
What this shows „Saigon“ 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 | Saigon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [zaɪ̯ˈɡɔn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Saigon“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Saigon (IPA [zaɪ̯ˈɡɔn]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #42,104 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "früherer Name von Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Saigon, with forms such as "asigon", "sagion", and "saiggon". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "sign", "Sion", "Simon", 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 Saigon, spelled S-A-I-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1früherer Name von Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Saigon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Es war Mittag in Saigon und Mitternacht in Washington.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asigon
- sagion
- saiggon
- saigno
- saigonn
- saiogn
- siagon
- ssaigon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Saigon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Saigon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).