dissen
[ˈdɪsn̩]
The verdict
“dissen” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #45,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,859
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden als verachtenswert hinstellen, voller Verachtung schlechtmachen; jemanden herabsetzend kritisieren; despektierlich über jemanden reden
Corpus desk
Index DE-dissen · dissen · German
dissen · rank #45,859 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,859
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dim
Nearest frequency peer: dim (-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 „dissen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Dienstagmor…
Dienstagmorgen
54,145 corpus weight
- Dildos
Dildos
54,144 corpus weight
- dim
dim
54,143 corpus weight
- dissen
dissen
54,142 corpus weight
- Dragoner
Dragoner
54,140 corpus weight
- dreister
dreister
54,139 corpus weight
What this shows „dissen“ 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 | dissen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdɪsn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „dissen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dissen (IPA [ˈdɪsn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,859 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "jemanden als verachtenswert hinstellen, voller Verachtung schlechtmachen; jemanden herabsetzend kritisieren; despektierlich über jemanden reden".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dissen, with forms such as "ddissen", "disen", and "disesn". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Dosen", "Düsen", "Drüsen", 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 dissen, spelled D-I-S-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden als verachtenswert hinstellen, voller Verachtung schlechtmachen; jemanden herabsetzend kritisieren; despektierlich über jemanden reden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich disse dich.
Du wurdest von ihm gedisst.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddissen
- disen
- disesn
- dissenn
- dissne
- dißen
- dsisen
- idssen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dissen - 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 "dissen", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).