scheel
[ʃeːl]
The verdict
“scheel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,250
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schief, schiefblickend
Corpus desk
Index DE-scheel · scheel · German
scheel · rank #32,250 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,250
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schilddrüse
Nearest frequency peer: Schilddrüse (+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 „scheel“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- satirische
satirische
67,754 corpus weight
- Satten
Satten
67,753 corpus weight
- scheel
scheel
67,751 corpus weight
- Schilddrüse
Schilddrüse
67,750 corpus weight
- schlampig
schlampig
67,749 corpus weight
- schleich
schleich
67,748 corpus weight
What this shows „scheel“ 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 | scheel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʃeːl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „scheel“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around scheel (IPA [ʃeːl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,250 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for scheel, with forms such as "csheel", "sccheel", and "scehel". 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, "seel", "schul", "scheu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is scheel, spelled S-C-H-E-E-L.
Definition
- 1schief, schiefblickend
- 2mundartlich (Rheinland): einäugig, missgünstig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scheel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Den scheelen Blick vergesse ich nicht.
„Oder habe ich nicht Macht zu tun, was ich will, mit dem, was mein ist? Siehst du darum scheel, weil ich so gütig bin?“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csheel
- sccheel
- scehel
- scheell
- schel
- schele
- schheel
- shceel
- sscheel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scheel - 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 "scheel", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).