Satan
[ˈzaːtan]
The verdict
“Satan” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,473. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,473
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Gegenspieler Gottes, der Teufel, der Versucher
Corpus desk
Index DE-satan · Satan · German
Satan · rank #13,473 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,473
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sale
Nearest frequency peer: sale (-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 „Satan“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- rundum
rundum
86,531 corpus weight
- sale
sale
86,529 corpus weight
- Satan
Satan
86,528 corpus weight
- schlechtest…
schlechtesten
86,527 corpus weight
- Schlosses
Schlosses
86,526 corpus weight
- Schreibweise
Schreibweise
86,525 corpus weight
What this shows „Satan“ 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 | Satan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzaːtan] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Satan“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Satan (IPA [ˈzaːtan]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,473 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Satan, with forms such as "astan", "saatn", and "satann". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sta", "Satz", "Star", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Satan, spelled S-A-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1der Gegenspieler Gottes, der Teufel, der Versucher
- 2boshafte Person
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Satan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Böse aber wird in der Macht des Satans auftreten mit großer Kraft und lügenhaften Zeichen und Wundern“
„Der Unterschied aber ist der, dass 1) der Satan der Urheber (πατής) der Sünde wurde, die Menschen aber der in die gute Schöpfung Gottes bereits eingedrungenen Macht der Sünde erlagen; dass 2) der Satan sich aus sich selber gegen Gott entschied, die Menschen aber durch Berückung von aussen der Liebe Gottes entrückt wurden, und 3) dass bei der Unmittelbark…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- astan
- saatn
- satann
- sattan
- ssatan
- staan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Satan - 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 "Satan", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).