Vitus
[ˈviːtʊs]
The verdict
“Vitus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #41,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,560
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-vitus · Vitus · German
Vitus · rank #41,560 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,560
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Virtuosen
Nearest frequency peer: Virtuosen (-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 „Vitus“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verändere
verändere
58,444 corpus weight
- virtuelles
virtuelles
58,443 corpus weight
- Virtuosen
Virtuosen
58,442 corpus weight
- Vitus
Vitus
58,441 corpus weight
- Volksgemein…
Volksgemeinschaft
58,440 corpus weight
- vollstes
vollstes
58,439 corpus weight
What this shows „Vitus“ 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 | Vitus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈviːtʊs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Vitus“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Vitus (IPA [ˈviːtʊs]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #41,560 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "männlicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vitus, with forms such as "ivtus", "vitsu", and "vittus". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "vous", "Votum", "vis", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Vitus, spelled V-I-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1männlicher Vorname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivtus
- vitsu
- vittus
- vituss
- viuts
- vtius
- vvitus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Vitus - 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 "Vitus", 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).