those
[ðəʊz]
The verdict
“those” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,517
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Demonstrativpronomens that
Corpus desk
Index DE-those · those · German
those · rank #27,517 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,517
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Tequila
Nearest frequency peer: Tequila (-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 „those“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- tanzten
tanzten
72,488 corpus weight
- tapferen
tapferen
72,487 corpus weight
- Tequila
Tequila
72,485 corpus weight
- those
those
72,484 corpus weight
- Todesurteil
Todesurteil
72,483 corpus weight
- totalitären
totalitären
72,482 corpus weight
What this shows „those“ 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 | those |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ðəʊz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „those“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around those (IPA [ðəʊz]), anunknown. Corpus frequency is #27,517 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Demonstrativpronomens that".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for those, with forms such as "htose", "thhose", and "thoes". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "TSE", "tore", "Tote", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is those, spelled T-H-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Plural des Demonstrativpronomens that
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htose
- thhose
- thoes
- thosse
- thsoe
- tohse
- tthose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of those - 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 "those", 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).