zieht
[t͡siːt]
The verdict
“zieht” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,066
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ziehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-zieht · zieht · German
zieht · rank #1,066 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,066
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH nennen
Nearest frequency peer: nennen (-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 „zieht“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Ländern
Ländern
98,938 corpus weight
- nahe
nahe
98,937 corpus weight
- nennen
nennen
98,936 corpus weight
- zieht
zieht
98,935 corpus weight
- Zug
Zug
98,934 corpus weight
- aktuell
aktuell
98,933 corpus weight
What this shows „zieht“ 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 | zieht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t͡siːt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „zieht“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around zieht (IPA [t͡siːt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,066 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for zieht, with forms such as "izeht", "zeiht", and "ziehht". 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, "Ziel", "Zimt", "zier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists 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 zieht, spelled Z-I-E-H-T.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ziehen
- 22. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ziehen
- 32. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ziehen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- izeht
- zeiht
- ziehht
- ziehtt
- zieth
- zihet
- zzieht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zieht - 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 "zieht", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).