Schacht
[ʃaxt]
The verdict
“Schacht” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,228. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,228
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hohler, meist senkrechter Raum
Corpus desk
Index DE-schacht · Schacht · German
Schacht · rank #13,228 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,228
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Rückspiel
Nearest frequency peer: Rückspiel (-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 „Schacht“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Rädern
Rädern
86,776 corpus weight
- Rückspiel
Rückspiel
86,774 corpus weight
- Schacht
Schacht
86,773 corpus weight
- Schlamm
Schlamm
86,772 corpus weight
- Schlesien
Schlesien
86,771 corpus weight
- schlichtweg
schlichtweg
86,770 corpus weight
What this shows „Schacht“ 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 | Schacht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃaxt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schacht“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Schacht (IPA [ʃaxt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,228 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schacht, with forms such as "cshacht", "scahcht", and "scchacht". 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, "Schah", "schaut", "Schaft", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Schacht, spelled S-C-H-A-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1hohler, meist senkrechter Raum
- 2vertikaler Grubenbau zu einem Stollen oder einer Strecke
- 3Vereinigung von Handwerkern, die auf Wanderschaft sind oder waren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schacht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es ist aus Gründen der Sicherheit besser, den Schacht abzudecken oder zu verschließen.
„Von den unterirdischen Räumen aus, die leer standen, gab es eine Verbindung zu den Schächten der Katakomben, die sich unter den Häusern der Stadtanlage überall hinzogen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshacht
- scahcht
- scchacht
- schaccht
- schachht
- schachtt
- schacth
- schahct
- schcaht
- schhacht
- shcacht
- sschacht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schacht - 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.
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 "Schacht", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).