things
[θɪŋz]
The verdict
“things” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,249. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,249
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs thing
Corpus desk
Index DE-things · things · German
things · rank #13,249 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,249
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Terrorist
Nearest frequency peer: Terrorist (-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 „things“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- sämtlicher
sämtlicher
86,754 corpus weight
- Terrorist
Terrorist
86,753 corpus weight
- things
things
86,752 corpus weight
- Thompson
Thompson
86,751 corpus weight
- Thorsten
Thorsten
86,750 corpus weight
- Tierarzt
Tierarzt
86,749 corpus weight
What this shows „things“ 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 | things |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [θɪŋz] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „things“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around things (IPA [θɪŋz]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,249 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs thing".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for things, with forms such as "htings", "thhings", and "thigns". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "this", "think", "twins", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is things, spelled T-H-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs thing
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htings
- thhings
- thigns
- thinggs
- thingss
- thinngs
- thinsg
- thnigs
- tihngs
- tthings
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of things - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "things", 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).