year
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The verdict
“year” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,524. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,524
- frequency rank, German
- 67
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - eine Dauer von 365 Tagen; Jahr
Corpus desk
Index DE-year · year · German
year · rank #13,524 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,524
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 67
- PHOTO-FINISH Zell
Nearest frequency peer: Zell (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “year”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wichser
Wichser
86,481 corpus weight
- Wirtschafts…
Wirtschaftspolitik
86,479 corpus weight
- year
year
86,477 corpus weight
- Zell
Zell
86,476 corpus weight
- Zeugnisse
Zeugnisse
86,475 corpus weight
- zig
zig
86,474 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “year” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | year |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “year” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around year (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,524 among 67 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for year, with forms such as "eyar", "yaer", and "yearr". 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, "yes", "Yen", "yet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is year, spelled Y-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1eine Dauer von 365 Tagen; Jahr
- 2bezogen auf den Lehrbetrieb
- 3bezogen auf den Lehrbetrieb
- 4bezogen auf den Lehrbetrieb
- 5Lebensjahr
- 6ein unbestimmter Zeitraum
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how year appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I have not seen him for ten years.
She was in the year above me at school.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eyar
- yaer
- yearr
- yera
- yyear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of year - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "year", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "year". Here's where to go from here.
- "year" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "yes". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #13,524 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "Y" letter cohort. Y–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.