Voss
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The verdict
“Voss” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,773) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,773
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fuchs
Corpus desk
Index DE-voss · Voss · German
Voss · rank #10,773 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,773
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Vorlesung
Nearest frequency peer: Vorlesung (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Voss“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- vielfältige
vielfältige
89,231 corpus weight
- vollzogen
vollzogen
89,230 corpus weight
- Vorlesung
Vorlesung
89,229 corpus weight
- Voss
Voss
89,228 corpus weight
- Wahlkreis
Wahlkreis
89,227 corpus weight
- Walther
Walther
89,226 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Voss“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Voss |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Voss“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Voss is neighbouring look-alikes ("Vox", "vous", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #10,773 among 4,163 “V” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Voss, with forms such as "ovss", "voß", and "vsos". 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, "Vox", "vous", "vote", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Voss, spelled V-O-S-S.
Definition
- 1Fuchs
- 2Pferd, bei dem Fell, Mähne und Schweif braun sind
- 3Infektionskrankheit im Mund
- 4Abzugskanal einer Feuerung zum Schornstein
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovss
- voß
- vsos
- vvoss
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Voss - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Voss", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).