Schein
[ʃaɪ̯n]
The verdict
“Schein” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,349. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,349
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schwaches Leuchten (Schimmer) bis helles grelles Blenden
Corpus desk
Index DE-schein · Schein · German
Schein · rank #6,349 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,349
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH satt
Nearest frequency peer: satt (-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 „Schein“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Saarland
Saarland
93,655 corpus weight
- Sanierung
Sanierung
93,654 corpus weight
- satt
satt
93,653 corpus weight
- Schein
Schein
93,652 corpus weight
- Schuh
Schuh
93,651 corpus weight
- schultern
schultern
93,650 corpus weight
What this shows „Schein“ 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 | Schein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schein“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Schein (IPA [ʃaɪ̯n]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,349 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schein, with forms such as "cshein", "scchein", and "scehin". 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, "sein", "shin", "sehen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Schein, spelled S-C-H-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1schwaches Leuchten (Schimmer) bis helles grelles Blenden
- 2Bescheinigung, Geldnote, Quittung, schriftlicher Nachweis
- 3äußeres Bild von einem Objekt, auch mit Zweifel bezüglich der Richtigkeit, auch bezogen auf das Verhalten einer Person möglich
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schein appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Schein ihrer Taschenlampen konnte die Dunkelheit kaum durchdringen.
Im Schein der Straßenlaterne sah man die Schneeflocken niederrieseln.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshein
- scchein
- scehin
- scheinn
- scheni
- schhein
- shcein
- sschein
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schein - 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 "Schein", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).