trail
[tʁɛl]
The verdict
“trail” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,436. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,436
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Geländemotorrad
Corpus desk
Index DE-trail · trail · German
trail · rank #20,436 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,436
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH trachten
Nearest frequency peer: trachten (-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 „trail“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Todesfall
Todesfall
79,568 corpus weight
- Totschlag
Totschlag
79,567 corpus weight
- trachten
trachten
79,566 corpus weight
- trail
trail
79,565 corpus weight
- transparente
transparente
79,564 corpus weight
- treibende
treibende
79,563 corpus weight
What this shows „trail“ 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 | trail |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʁɛl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „trail“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around trail (IPA [tʁɛl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,436 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for trail, with forms such as "rtail", "taril", and "traill". 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, "trat", "Trio", "Trip", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is trail, spelled T-R-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Geländemotorrad
- 2Landschaftslauf, Traillauf
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtail
- taril
- traill
- trali
- trrail
- ttrail
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trail - 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 "trail", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).