sale

[seɪl]

/[seɪl]/ noun

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The verdict

“sale” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,472) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#13,472
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transaktion Ware gegen Geld: Verkauf

Corpus desk

Index DE-sale · sale · German

sale · rank #13,472 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,472
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Satan

Nearest frequency peer: Satan (+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.

Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „sale“

Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten

corpus weight

What this shows Balken platzieren „sale“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sale vs se
50% similar
sale vs sie
50% similar
sale vs See
25% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sale
PropertyValue
Headwordsale
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[seɪl]
Letters4
Frequency rank#13,472
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sale“

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).saleliegt auf dieser Marke:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Satan“ (#13,473), „rundum“ (#13,470), „schlechtesten“ (#13,474). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „sale“ bei #13,472. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for sale is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "sie", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [seɪl]. Frequency #13,472 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for sale, with forms such as "asle", "sael", and "slae". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "sie", "See", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is sale, spelled S-A-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Transaktion Ware gegen Geld: Verkauf
  2. 2
    Summe der Warentransaktionen von Unternehmen in einem bestimmten Zeitraum: Umsatz, Absatz
  3. 3
    Vertriebsabteilung eines Unternehmens: Verkauf, Vertrieb
  4. 4
    Abgabe von Ware mit Preisnachlass: Sonderangebot, Schlussverkauf, Ausverkauf
  5. 5
    Abgabe einer Ware an denjenigen, der den höchsten Preis bietet: Auktion

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The sale of his house brought him more money than he had expected.
  2. Possession and sale of heroin are illegal.

Synonyms

sellsellingauction

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asle
  • sael
  • slae
  • ssale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sale - 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.

asle2sael2slae2ssale1
Edit distance from "sale"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sale"?
"sale" is spelled S-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [seɪl].
What does "sale" mean?
As a noun, "sale" means: Transaktion Ware gegen Geld: Verkauf
What words are commonly confused with "sale"?
"sale" is commonly confused with "se", "sie", "See". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sale" is [seɪl]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sale" come from?
"sale" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sale", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pony#13,460lobt#13,428year#13,524Zell#13,525

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list