sales
[seɪlz]
The verdict
“sales” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,929. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,929
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs sale
Corpus desk
Index DE-sales · sales · German
sales · rank #13,929 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,929
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Röhre
Nearest frequency peer: Röhre (-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 „sales“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- rutschen
rutschen
86,075 corpus weight
- rutscht
rutscht
86,074 corpus weight
- Röhre
Röhre
86,073 corpus weight
- sales
sales
86,072 corpus weight
- Samstagabend
Samstagabend
86,071 corpus weight
- Sb
Sb
86,070 corpus weight
What this shows „sales“ 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 | sales |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seɪlz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „sales“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around sales (IPA [seɪlz]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,929 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs sale".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sales, with forms such as "asles", "saels", and "saless". 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, "SAS", "ses", "sass", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is sales, spelled S-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs sale
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asles
- saels
- saless
- salles
- salse
- slaes
- ssales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sales - 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 "sales", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).