wash
[wɒʃ]
The verdict
“wash” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,357. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,357
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - waschen, säubern
Corpus desk
Index DE-wash · wash · German
wash · rank #44,357 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,357
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Walhalla
Nearest frequency peer: Walhalla (-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 „wash“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- väterliche
väterliche
55,647 corpus weight
- Wahlplakat
Wahlplakat
55,646 corpus weight
- Walhalla
Walhalla
55,645 corpus weight
- wash
wash
55,644 corpus weight
- Wasserspieg…
Wasserspiegel
55,643 corpus weight
- Wasserverbr…
Wasserverbrauch
55,642 corpus weight
What this shows „wash“ 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 | wash |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [wɒʃ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „wash“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around wash (IPA [wɒʃ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,357 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "waschen, säubern".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for wash, with forms such as "awsh", "wahs", and "washh". 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, "WS", "Weh", "way", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is wash, spelled W-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1waschen, säubern
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awsh
- wahs
- washh
- wassh
- wsah
- wwash
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wash - 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 "wash", 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).