snacks

/[…]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#19,391

in German word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

snacks is aGermanverb. It means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs snack Pronounced […]. Often confused with snake and Stack.

Key facts for snacks
PropertyValue
Headwordsnacks
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#19,391
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of snacks in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for snacks is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,391 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs snack".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for snacks, with forms such as "nsacks", "sancks", and "snaccks". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "snake", "Stack", "Stücks", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is snacks, spelled S-N-A-C-K-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs snack

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: nsacks,sancks,snaccks,snackks,snackss,snacsk,snakcs,sncaks,snnacks,ssnacks

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for snacks

Misspelling Variants of "snacks"

nsacks6sancks6snaccks7snackks7snackss7snacsk6snakcs6sncaks6
Misspelling Variants of "snacks"

Frequency rank: #19,391 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "snacks"?
"snacks" is spelled S-N-A-C-K-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "snacks" mean?
As a verb, "snacks" means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs snack
What words are commonly confused with "snacks"?
"snacks" is commonly confused with "snake", "Stack", "Stücks". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "snacks"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "snacks" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "snacks" come from?
"snacks" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.