zwecks
[t͡svɛks]
The verdict
“zwecks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,308. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,308
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu dem Zweck
Corpus desk
Index DE-zwecks · zwecks · German
zwecks · rank #9,308 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,308
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zugehörigkeit
Nearest frequency peer: Zugehörigkeit (-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 „zwecks“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Zirkus
Zirkus
90,696 corpus weight
- Zubehör
Zubehör
90,695 corpus weight
- Zugehörigke…
Zugehörigkeit
90,694 corpus weight
- zwecks
zwecks
90,693 corpus weight
- zweifeln
zweifeln
90,692 corpus weight
- Öffnungszei…
Öffnungszeiten
90,690 corpus weight
What this shows „zwecks“ 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 | zwecks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [t͡svɛks] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „zwecks“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around zwecks (IPA [t͡svɛks]), apreposition. Corpus frequency is #9,308 among 1,996 “Z” headwords. Dominant gloss: "zu dem Zweck".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for zwecks, with forms such as "wzecks", "zewcks", and "zwceks". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Zweck", "Zecke", "Zwecke", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is zwecks, spelled Z-W-E-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1zu dem Zweck
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zwecks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Um persönliches Erscheinen zwecks einer korrekten Beurteilung wird gebeten.
„Das formalisierte Verfahren der Überlassung eines Grundstücks zwecks Bebauung ohne vorherige Abstimmung der Bauobjektlage ist das Verfahren, welches rechtsstaatlichen Anforderungen entspricht, wie im Nachfolgenden dargestellt.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- wzecks
- zewcks
- zwceks
- zweccks
- zweckks
- zweckss
- zwecsk
- zwekcs
- zwwecks
- zzwecks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zwecks - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "zwecks", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).