Sackgasse
[ˈzakˌɡasə]
The verdict
“Sackgasse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,703. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,703
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleine Straße ohne Durchfahrmöglichkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-sackgasse · Sackgasse · German
Sackgasse · rank #19,703 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,703
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Rückschlag
Nearest frequency peer: Rückschlag (-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 „Sackgasse“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Rufnummer
Rufnummer
80,301 corpus weight
- rückblickend
rückblickend
80,300 corpus weight
- Rückschlag
Rückschlag
80,299 corpus weight
- Sackgasse
Sackgasse
80,298 corpus weight
- safari
safari
80,297 corpus weight
- saugt
saugt
80,295 corpus weight
What this shows „Sackgasse“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sackgasse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzakˌɡasə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Sackgasse“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Sackgasse (IPA [ˈzakˌɡasə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,703 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sackgasse, with forms such as "asckgasse", "sacckgasse", and "sacgkasse". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Sackgasse, spelled S-A-C-K-G-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1kleine Straße ohne Durchfahrmöglichkeit
- 2Situation ohne Ausweg
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sackgasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durch die vielen Sackgassen kommt kaum ein fließender Verkehr zustande.
„Gleich vorm Haus ging eine Sackgasse runter, die aber keine war, weil man von da aus zu Fuß ins Wambachtal konnte.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asckgasse
- sacckgasse
- sacgkasse
- sackagsse
- sackgase
- sackgases
- sackgaße
- sackggasse
- sackgsase
- sackkgasse
- sakcgasse
- scakgasse
- ssackgasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sackgasse - 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 "Sackgasse", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).