truck
[trʌk]
The verdict
“truck” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,437. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,437
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kraftwagen zum Transport von Last
Corpus desk
Index DE-truck · truck · German
truck · rank #14,437 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,437
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Trinkgeld
Nearest frequency peer: Trinkgeld (-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 „truck“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Trainings
Trainings
85,566 corpus weight
- Trinkgeld
Trinkgeld
85,565 corpus weight
- truck
truck
85,564 corpus weight
- Täuschung
Täuschung
85,563 corpus weight
- umgerechnet
umgerechnet
85,562 corpus weight
- umstrittene
umstrittene
85,561 corpus weight
What this shows „truck“ 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 | truck |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [trʌk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „truck“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around truck (IPA [trʌk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,437 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for truck, with forms such as "rtuck", "trcuk", and "trruck". 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, "trug", "true", "Tuch", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is truck, spelled T-R-U-C-K.
Definition
- 1Kraftwagen zum Transport von Last
- 2Eisenbahnwagen zum Gütertransport
- 3Platte oder niedriger Rahmen auf Rollen
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtuck
- trcuk
- trruck
- trucck
- truckk
- trukc
- ttruck
- turck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of truck - 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 "truck", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).