Tennis
[ˈtɛnɪs]
The verdict
“Tennis” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,120
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sportliches Ballspiel, welches als Rückschlagspiel mit einem Tennisball und jeweils einem Tennisschläger pro Person gespielt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-tennis · Tennis · German
Tennis · rank #5,120 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,120
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Tafel
Nearest frequency peer: Tafel (-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 „Tennis“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sprung
Sprung
94,884 corpus weight
- Supermarkt
Supermarkt
94,883 corpus weight
- Tafel
Tafel
94,882 corpus weight
- Tennis
Tennis
94,881 corpus weight
- unendlich
unendlich
94,880 corpus weight
- Unglück
Unglück
94,879 corpus weight
What this shows „Tennis“ 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 | Tennis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtɛnɪs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Tennis“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Tennis (IPA [ˈtɛnɪs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,120 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sportliches Ballspiel, welches als Rückschlagspiel mit einem Tennisball und jeweils einem Tennisschläger pro Person gespielt wird".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tennis, with forms such as "etnnis", "tenins", and "tenis". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Tunis", "Teens", "Teenie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Tennis, spelled T-E-N-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1sportliches Ballspiel, welches als Rückschlagspiel mit einem Tennisball und jeweils einem Tennisschläger pro Person gespielt wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tennis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie trug ganz kleine Shorts dabei. Alle haben damals Tennis gespielt – sie haben nicht wirklich gespielt, sie sahen nur sehr gut aus.“
„Tennis ist so gut für Frauen von Politikern und führenden Katholiken.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnnis
- tenins
- tenis
- tenniss
- tennsi
- tnenis
- ttennis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tennis - 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 "Tennis", 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).