tusk
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The verdict
“tusk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,824
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stoßzahn; sehr langer und spitzer Zahn, der aus dem Maul des Tieres herausragt und meist paarweise vorkommt, aber auch einzeln (zum Beispiel beim Narwal)
Corpus desk
Index DE-tusk · tusk · German
tusk · rank #29,824 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,824
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH truth
Nearest frequency peer: truth (-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 „tusk“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Transplanta…
Transplantation
70,180 corpus weight
- Tripolis
Tripolis
70,179 corpus weight
- truth
truth
70,178 corpus weight
- tusk
tusk
70,177 corpus weight
- Tyrannen
Tyrannen
70,176 corpus weight
- töteten
töteten
70,175 corpus weight
What this shows „tusk“ 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 | tusk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „tusk“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tusk (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,824 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Stoßzahn; sehr langer und spitzer Zahn, der aus dem Maul des Tieres herausragt und meist paarweise vorkommt, aber auch einzeln (zum Beispiel beim Narwal)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tusk, with forms such as "tsuk", "ttusk", and "tuks". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tut", "TÜV", "TVs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is tusk, spelled T-U-S-K.
Definition
- 1Stoßzahn; sehr langer und spitzer Zahn, der aus dem Maul des Tieres herausragt und meist paarweise vorkommt, aber auch einzeln (zum Beispiel beim Narwal)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tusk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Although both African elephant sexes have tusks, there are large differences in size and weight.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tsuk
- ttusk
- tuks
- tuskk
- tussk
- utsk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tusk - 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 "tusk", 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).