watch
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The verdict
“watch” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,655. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,655
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine kleine Uhr
Corpus desk
Index DE-watch · watch · German
watch · rank #8,655 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,655
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wahrer
Nearest frequency peer: wahrer (-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 „watch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- vorzustellen
vorzustellen
91,348 corpus weight
- wahrer
wahrer
91,347 corpus weight
- watch
watch
91,346 corpus weight
- Weltcup
Weltcup
91,345 corpus weight
- Wettkampf
Wettkampf
91,344 corpus weight
- when
when
91,343 corpus weight
What this shows „watch“ 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 | watch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „watch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around watch (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,655 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for watch, with forms such as "awtch", "wacth", and "watcch". 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, "with", "Watt", "wich", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is watch, spelled W-A-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1eine kleine Uhr
- 2die Wache
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awtch
- wacth
- watcch
- watchh
- wathc
- wattch
- wtach
- wwatch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of watch - 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 "watch", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).