tears
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The verdict
“tears” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,803. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,803
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs tear
Corpus desk
Index DE-tears · tears · German
tears · rank #32,803 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,803
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Teilnehmerin
Nearest frequency peer: Teilnehmerin (+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 „tears“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- tacho
tacho
67,201 corpus weight
- Tam
Tam
67,200 corpus weight
- tears
tears
67,198 corpus weight
- Teilnehmerin
Teilnehmerin
67,197 corpus weight
- temporären
temporären
67,196 corpus weight
- tendieren
tendieren
67,195 corpus weight
What this shows „tears“ 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 | tears |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „tears“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tears (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,803 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs tear".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tears, with forms such as "etars", "taers", and "tearrs". 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, "ter", "tes", "term", 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 tears, spelled T-E-A-R-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs tear
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etars
- taers
- tearrs
- tearss
- teasr
- teras
- ttears
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tears - 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 "tears", 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).