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The verdict
“summary” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,955
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zusammenfassung, Überblick, Inhaltsübersicht
Corpus desk
Index DE-summary · summary · German
summary · rank #44,955 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,955
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Superlative
Nearest frequency peer: Superlative (+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 „summary“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sturmflut
Sturmflut
55,049 corpus weight
- Stöpsel
Stöpsel
55,048 corpus weight
- summary
summary
55,046 corpus weight
- Superlative
Superlative
55,045 corpus weight
- symbolischer
symbolischer
55,044 corpus weight
- Syndrome
Syndrome
55,043 corpus weight
What this shows „summary“ 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 | summary |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „summary“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around summary (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,955 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Zusammenfassung, Überblick, Inhaltsübersicht".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for summary, with forms such as "smumary", "ssummary", and "sumamry". 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, "summer", "Summers", "TO", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is summary, spelled S-U-M-M-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Zusammenfassung, Überblick, Inhaltsübersicht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how summary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"In the "Summary of Irish History" now offered to the public, a mere sketch is given of some of these details, whilst the greater proportion is omitted, in order to give place to more important and instructive matter."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smumary
- ssummary
- sumamry
- sumary
- summarry
- summaryy
- summayr
- summray
- usmmary
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of summary - 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 "summary", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).