sticks
[stɪks]
The verdict
“sticks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #28,402. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,402
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs stick
Corpus desk
Index DE-sticks · sticks · German
sticks · rank #28,402 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,402
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH steckst
Nearest frequency peer: steckst (-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 „sticks“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Stadtviertel
Stadtviertel
71,602 corpus weight
- statisch
statisch
71,601 corpus weight
- steckst
steckst
71,600 corpus weight
- sticks
sticks
71,599 corpus weight
- studentisch…
studentischen
71,597 corpus weight
- Substantiv
Substantiv
71,595 corpus weight
What this shows „sticks“ 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 | sticks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [stɪks] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „sticks“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sticks (IPA [stɪks]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,402 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs stick".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sticks, with forms such as "sitcks", "ssticks", and "stciks". 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, "Stück", "Stock", "Stils", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is sticks, spelled S-T-I-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs stick
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sitcks
- ssticks
- stciks
- sticcks
- stickks
- stickss
- sticsk
- stikcs
- stticks
- tsicks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sticks - 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 "sticks", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).