Sohns
[zoːns]
The verdict
“Sohns” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,630
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Sohn
Corpus desk
Index DE-sohns · Sohns · German
Sohns · rank #36,630 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,630
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sonnenschutz
Nearest frequency peer: Sonnenschutz (+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 „Sohns“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sinus
Sinus
63,375 corpus weight
- Sirius
Sirius
63,374 corpus weight
- Skandals
Skandals
63,373 corpus weight
- Sohns
Sohns
63,371 corpus weight
- Sonnenschutz
Sonnenschutz
63,370 corpus weight
- Sopranistin
Sopranistin
63,368 corpus weight
What this shows „Sohns“ 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 | Sohns |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zoːns] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Sohns“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Sohns (IPA [zoːns]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,630 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Sohn".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sohns, with forms such as "oshns", "shons", and "sohhns". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "son", "Song", "sonn", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Sohns, spelled S-O-H-N-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Sohn
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oshns
- shons
- sohhns
- sohnns
- sohnss
- sohsn
- sonhs
- ssohns
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sohns - 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 "Sohns", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).