spots
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The verdict
“spots” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,933
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spot
Corpus desk
Index DE-spots · spots · German
spots · rank #24,933 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,933
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spione
Nearest frequency peer: Spione (-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 „spots“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sopran
Sopran
75,071 corpus weight
- Speise
Speise
75,070 corpus weight
- Spione
Spione
75,069 corpus weight
- spots
spots
75,068 corpus weight
- Sprachwisse…
Sprachwissenschaft
75,067 corpus weight
- Spreewald
Spreewald
75,066 corpus weight
What this shows „spots“ 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 | spots |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „spots“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around spots (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,933 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spot".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for spots, with forms such as "sopts", "spost", and "spotss". 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, "SPS", "stets", "Spott", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is spots, spelled S-P-O-T-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spot
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sopts
- spost
- spotss
- spotts
- sppots
- sptos
- sspots
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spots - 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 "spots", 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).