Schaff
[ʃaf]
The verdict
“Schaff” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,665
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - größeres, oben offenes Holzgefäß
Corpus desk
Index DE-schaff · Schaff · German
Schaff · rank #14,665 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,665
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schlepper
Nearest frequency peer: Schlepper (+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 „Schaff“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Rettungsdie…
Rettungsdienst
85,339 corpus weight
- Robinson
Robinson
85,338 corpus weight
- Schaff
Schaff
85,336 corpus weight
- Schlepper
Schlepper
85,335 corpus weight
- screen
screen
85,334 corpus weight
- Sees
Sees
85,333 corpus weight
What this shows „Schaff“ 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 | Schaff |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃaf] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schaff“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Schaff (IPA [ʃaf]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,665 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schaff, with forms such as "cshaff", "scahff", and "scchaff". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Schau", "schuf", "Schal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Schaff, spelled S-C-H-A-F-F.
Definition
- 1größeres, oben offenes Holzgefäß
- 2eine Art Schrank oder Regal
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshaff
- scahff
- scchaff
- schfaf
- schhaff
- shcaff
- sschaff
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schaff - 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 "Schaff", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).