wink
[vɪŋk]
The verdict
“wink” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,970. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,970
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs winken
Corpus desk
Index DE-wink · wink · German
wink · rank #22,970 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,970
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wogegen
Nearest frequency peer: wogegen (+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 „wink“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Westafrika
Westafrika
77,034 corpus weight
- wichtigeres
wichtigeres
77,033 corpus weight
- wink
wink
77,031 corpus weight
- wogegen
wogegen
77,030 corpus weight
- words
words
77,029 corpus weight
- wundere
wundere
77,028 corpus weight
What this shows „wink“ 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 | wink |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [vɪŋk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „wink“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around wink (IPA [vɪŋk]), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,970 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs winken".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for wink, with forms such as "iwnk", "wikn", and "winkk". 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, "wir", "won", "Wok", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is wink, spelled W-I-N-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs winken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwnk
- wikn
- winkk
- winnk
- wnik
- wwink
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wink - 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 "wink", 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).