Spam
[spɛm]
The verdict
“Spam” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,454. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,454
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesamtheit aller unerwünschter, oft gehäuft abgesendeter Nachrichten (meist für Werbezwecke, ohne Themenbezug)
Corpus desk
Index DE-spam · Spam · German
Spam · rank #9,454 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,454
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH siegte
Nearest frequency peer: siegte (-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 „Spam“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schnelles
schnelles
90,550 corpus weight
- shopping
shopping
90,549 corpus weight
- siegte
siegte
90,548 corpus weight
- Spam
Spam
90,547 corpus weight
- Sperma
Sperma
90,546 corpus weight
- spezifischen
spezifischen
90,545 corpus weight
What this shows „Spam“ 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 | Spam |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [spɛm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Spam“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Spam (IPA [spɛm]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,454 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Spam, with forms such as "psam", "sapm", and "spamm". 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, "SPD", "SPÖ", "sta", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Spam, spelled S-P-A-M.
Definition
- 1Gesamtheit aller unerwünschter, oft gehäuft abgesendeter Nachrichten (meist für Werbezwecke, ohne Themenbezug)
- 2unerwünschte, oft gehäuft abgesendete Nachricht (meist für Werbezwecke, ohne Themenbezug)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Spam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diese Seite ist besonders von Spam betroffen.
Er ist gerade dabei, die Spams der letzten Tage zu löschen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psam
- sapm
- spamm
- spma
- sppam
- sspam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Spam - 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 "Spam", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).