tops
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The verdict
“tops” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,825. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,825
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs top
Corpus desk
Index DE-tops · tops · German
tops · rank #31,825 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,825
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Token
Nearest frequency peer: Token (-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 „tops“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- tilo
tilo
68,179 corpus weight
- Titelblatt
Titelblatt
68,178 corpus weight
- Token
Token
68,177 corpus weight
- tops
tops
68,176 corpus weight
- Torjäger
Torjäger
68,175 corpus weight
- tranny
tranny
68,174 corpus weight
What this shows „tops“ 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 | tops |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „tops“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tops (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,825 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs top".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tops, with forms such as "otps", "topps", and "topss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ts", "Typ", "Tor", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is tops, spelled T-O-P-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs top
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otps
- topps
- topss
- tosp
- tpos
- ttops
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tops - 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 "tops", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).