quetschen
[ˈkvɛt͡ʃn̩]
The verdict
“quetschen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,396. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,396
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gegen etwas oder jemanden heftig drücken, pressen
Corpus desk
Index DE-quetschen · quetschen · German
quetschen · rank #35,396 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,396
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH pusten
Nearest frequency peer: pusten (-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 „quetschen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- prozentual
prozentual
64,608 corpus weight
- Psalmen
Psalmen
64,607 corpus weight
- pusten
pusten
64,606 corpus weight
- quetschen
quetschen
64,605 corpus weight
- rammt
rammt
64,604 corpus weight
- Ramstein
Ramstein
64,603 corpus weight
What this shows „quetschen“ 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 | quetschen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkvɛt͡ʃn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „quetschen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around quetschen (IPA [ˈkvɛt͡ʃn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,396 among 216 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for quetschen, with forms such as "qeutschen", "qquetschen", and "questchen". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "quietschen", "quatschen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is quetschen, spelled Q-U-E-T-S-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1gegen etwas oder jemanden heftig drücken, pressen
- 2sich irgendwo, wo es eng ist, hineindrücken
- 3durch heftigen Druck innerlich verletzen
- 4Karten in den Skat ablegen, drücken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quetschen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er quetschte einen Ball in den Spalt.
Sie quetschte sich durch das Loch.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qeutschen
- qquetschen
- questchen
- quetcshen
- quetscchen
- quetscehn
- quetschenn
- quetschhen
- quetschne
- quetshcen
- quetsschen
- quettschen
- quteschen
- uqetschen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quetschen - 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 "quetschen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).