Satellit
[zatɛˈliːt]
The verdict
“Satellit” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,051. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,051
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - menschengemachter Körper, der einen Himmelskörper umkreist
Corpus desk
Index DE-satellit · Satellit · German
Satellit · rank #18,051 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,051
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sarkasmus
Nearest frequency peer: Sarkasmus (-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 „Satellit“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sachbeschäd…
Sachbeschädigung
81,954 corpus weight
- sachverstän…
sachverständigen
81,953 corpus weight
- Sarkasmus
Sarkasmus
81,951 corpus weight
- Satellit
Satellit
81,950 corpus weight
- Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen
81,949 corpus weight
- scheren
scheren
81,947 corpus weight
What this shows „Satellit“ 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 | Satellit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zatɛˈliːt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Satellit“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Satellit (IPA [zatɛˈliːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,051 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Satellit, with forms such as "astellit", "saetllit", and "satelilt". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "stellt", "stellst", "satellite", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Satellit, spelled S-A-T-E-L-L-I-T.
Definition
- 1menschengemachter Körper, der einen Himmelskörper umkreist
- 2natürlicher Körper, der einen Himmelskörper umkreist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Satellit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Fernsehsignal kommt vom Satelliten.
„Samstags lud er alle zu sich ein, und gemeinsam schauten sie per Satellit die Bundesliga.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- astellit
- saetllit
- satelilt
- satelit
- satellitt
- satellti
- satlelit
- sattellit
- ssatellit
- staellit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Satellit - 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 "Satellit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).