Spass
[ʃpaːs]
The verdict
“Spass” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #524. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #524
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spaß
Corpus desk
Index DE-spass · Spass · German
Spass · rank #524 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #524
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sohn
Nearest frequency peer: Sohn (-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 „Spass“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Prozent
Prozent
99,479 corpus weight
- Sohn
Sohn
99,478 corpus weight
- Spass
Spass
99,477 corpus weight
- Stelle
Stelle
99,476 corpus weight
- V
V
99,475 corpus weight
- Wort
Wort
99,474 corpus weight
What this shows „Spass“ 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 | Spass |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃpaːs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Spass“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Spass (IPA [ʃpaːs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #524 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Spaß".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Spass, with forms such as "psass", "sapss", and "spas". 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, "SPS", "spät", "stars", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Spass, spelled S-P-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Spaß
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psass
- sapss
- spas
- spaß
- sppass
- spsas
- sspass
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Spass - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Spass", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).