secrets
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The verdict
“secrets” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #40,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,202
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs secret
Corpus desk
Index DE-secrets · secrets · German
secrets · rank #40,202 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,202
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Seemeilen
Nearest frequency peer: Seemeilen (+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 „secrets“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schwarzkopf
Schwarzkopf
59,802 corpus weight
- schwor
schwor
59,801 corpus weight
- secrets
secrets
59,799 corpus weight
- Seemeilen
Seemeilen
59,798 corpus weight
- selbsternan…
selbsternannte
59,797 corpus weight
- Selbstmorda…
Selbstmordattentäter
59,796 corpus weight
What this shows „secrets“ 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 | secrets |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „secrets“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around secrets (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,202 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs secret".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for secrets, with forms such as "escrets", "scerets", and "seccrets". 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, "TO", "video", "Trump", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 secrets, spelled S-E-C-R-E-T-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs secret
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- escrets
- scerets
- seccrets
- secerts
- secrest
- secretss
- secretts
- secrrets
- secrtes
- sercets
- ssecrets
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of secrets - 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 "secrets", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).