Sauce
[ˈzoːsə]
The verdict
“Sauce” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,960. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,960
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fachsprachlich: alternative Schreibweise von Soße^([1]) beziehungsweise Soß; in Österreich nicht fachsprachliche Hauptschreibweise
Corpus desk
Index DE-sauce · Sauce · German
Sauce · rank #11,960 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,960
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH romantischen
Nearest frequency peer: romantischen (-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 „Sauce“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Rn
Rn
88,044 corpus weight
- rob
rob
88,043 corpus weight
- romantischen
romantischen
88,042 corpus weight
- Sauce
Sauce
88,041 corpus weight
- Schal
Schal
88,040 corpus weight
- schreckliche
schreckliche
88,039 corpus weight
What this shows „Sauce“ 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 | Sauce |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzoːsə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Sauce“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Sauce (IPA [ˈzoːsə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,960 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "fachsprachlich: alternative Schreibweise von Soße^([1]) beziehungsweise Soß; in Österreich nicht fachsprachliche Hauptschreibweise".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sauce, with forms such as "asuce", "sacue", and "saucce". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sue", "such", "save", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Sauce, spelled S-A-U-C-E.
Definition
- 1fachsprachlich: alternative Schreibweise von Soße^([1]) beziehungsweise Soß; in Österreich nicht fachsprachliche Hauptschreibweise
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sauce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Sauce schmeckt sehr gut.
„An der Sauce erkennt man den guten Koch, weswegen in vielen Restaurants der Chef persönlich dafür verantwortlich ist.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asuce
- sacue
- saucce
- sauec
- ssauce
- suace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sauce - 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 "Sauce", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).