tough
[taf]
The verdict
“tough” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #43,540. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,540
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - robust, widerstandsfähig
Corpus desk
Index DE-tough · tough · German
tough · rank #43,540 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,540
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Torben
Nearest frequency peer: Torben (-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 „tough“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Torben
Torben
56,462 corpus weight
- tough
tough
56,461 corpus weight
- trader
trader
56,460 corpus weight
- Transkripti…
Transkription
56,459 corpus weight
- traun
traun
56,458 corpus weight
- Treibhausga…
Treibhausgase
56,457 corpus weight
What this shows „tough“ 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 | tough |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [taf] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #43,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „tough“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tough (IPA [taf]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,540 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "robust, widerstandsfähig".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tough, with forms such as "otugh", "toguh", and "touggh". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Tour", "trug", "Tuch", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is tough, spelled T-O-U-G-H.
Definition
- 1robust, widerstandsfähig
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otugh
- toguh
- touggh
- toughh
- touhg
- ttough
- tuogh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tough - 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 "tough", 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).