works
[wɜːks]
The verdict
“works” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,219. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,219
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs work
Corpus desk
Index DE-works · works · German
works · rank #22,219 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,219
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH zehntel
Nearest frequency peer: zehntel (+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 „works“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- wichtigster
wichtigster
77,785 corpus weight
- Wiedergeburt
Wiedergeburt
77,784 corpus weight
- works
works
77,782 corpus weight
- zehntel
zehntel
77,781 corpus weight
- Zeitzeugen
Zeitzeugen
77,780 corpus weight
- Zement
Zement
77,779 corpus weight
What this shows „works“ 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 | works |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [wɜːks] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „works“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around works (IPA [wɜːks]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,219 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plural des Substantivs work".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for works, with forms such as "owrks", "wokrs", and "workks". 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, "Wort", "Worte", "world", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 works, spelled W-O-R-K-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs work
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owrks
- wokrs
- workks
- workss
- worrks
- worsk
- wroks
- wworks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of works - 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 "works", 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).