dastehen
[ˈdaːˌʃteːən]
The verdict
“dastehen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,552
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (vor jemandes Augen) an einem nicht näher bestimmten Platz stehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-dastehen · dastehen · German
dastehen · rank #17,552 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,552
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Darwin
Nearest frequency peer: Darwin (-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 „dastehen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- charakteris…
charakterisiert
82,452 corpus weight
- chicken
chicken
82,451 corpus weight
- Darwin
Darwin
82,450 corpus weight
- dastehen
dastehen
82,449 corpus weight
- Davos
Davos
82,448 corpus weight
- Defekte
Defekte
82,447 corpus weight
What this shows „dastehen“ 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 | dastehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdaːˌʃteːən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „dastehen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around dastehen (IPA [ˈdaːˌʃteːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,552 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for dastehen, with forms such as "adstehen", "dasethen", and "dasstehen". 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, "Dateien", "dasteht", "düsteren", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is dastehen, spelled D-A-S-T-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1(vor jemandes Augen) an einem nicht näher bestimmten Platz stehen
- 2sich in einer bestimmten Situation oder Verfassung befinden, als etwas angesehen werden, auf jemanden in einer bestimmten Weise wirken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dastehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nach der Explosion im Chemiesaal stand der Lehrer minutenlang wie versteinert da.
Zitternd stehen sie da und weinen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adstehen
- dasethen
- dasstehen
- dasteehn
- dastehenn
- dastehhen
- dastehne
- dastheen
- dasttehen
- datsehen
- ddastehen
- dsatehen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dastehen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "dastehen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).