Suffix
[ˈzʊfɪks]
The verdict
“Suffix” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #39,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,056
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - an einen Wortstamm angehängte Endung, die der Wortbildung oder Flexion dient
Corpus desk
Index DE-suffix · Suffix · German
Suffix · rank #39,056 · 7 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,056
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH suboptimal
Nearest frequency peer: suboptimal (-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 „Suffix“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sträuchern
Sträuchern
60,948 corpus weight
- Ställen
Ställen
60,947 corpus weight
- suboptimal
suboptimal
60,946 corpus weight
- Suffix
Suffix
60,945 corpus weight
- Suiten
Suiten
60,944 corpus weight
- Synchronspr…
Synchronsprecher
60,942 corpus weight
What this shows „Suffix“ 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 | Suffix |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzʊfɪks] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Suffix“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Suffix (IPA [ˈzʊfɪks]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,056 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Suffix, with forms such as "sfufix", "ssuffix", and "suffixx". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Suff", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Suffix, spelled S-U-F-F-I-X.
Definition
- 1an einen Wortstamm angehängte Endung, die der Wortbildung oder Flexion dient
- 2die letzten Zeichen einer Zeichenkette
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Suffix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
-erl, -lein und -chen sind Suffixe.
„Schließlich sei an Entwicklungsprozesse erinnert, die sich auch in der deutschen Sprache der Gegenwart vollziehen: die Entwicklung von Wörtern zu Suffixen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sfufix
- ssuffix
- suffixx
- suffxi
- sufifx
- sufix
- usffix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Suffix - 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 "Suffix", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).