viking
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The verdict
“viking” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #39,704. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,704
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - während der Wikingerzeit (ca 790-1100 n. Chr.) reisende, erforschende und erobernde/plündernde Seefahrer aus dem Norden Europas
Corpus desk
Index DE-viking · viking · German
viking · rank #39,704 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,704
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Vikar
Nearest frequency peer: Vikar (-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 „viking“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Videomateri…
Videomaterial
60,299 corpus weight
- Vikar
Vikar
60,298 corpus weight
- viking
viking
60,297 corpus weight
- Vitae
Vitae
60,296 corpus weight
- vitale
vitale
60,295 corpus weight
- Volljährigk…
Volljährigkeit
60,294 corpus weight
What this shows „viking“ 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 | viking |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „viking“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around viking (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,704 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for viking, with forms such as "ivking", "viikng", and "vikign". 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, "voting", "windows", "your", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 viking, spelled V-I-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1während der Wikingerzeit (ca 790-1100 n. Chr.) reisende, erforschende und erobernde/plündernde Seefahrer aus dem Norden Europas
- 2verallgemeinernd für alle Bewohner des Nordens um diese Zeit
- 3von Wikingern unternommene Reise, Plünderungszug
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how viking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Från omkring 850 blir vikingarna alltmer stationära, man börjar övervintra på baser i flodmynningarna.“
„Birka var en utpräglad köpstad, befolkad inte bara av vikingar.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivking
- viikng
- vikign
- vikingg
- vikinng
- vikking
- viknig
- vkiing
- vviking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of viking - 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 "viking", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).