scheint
[ʃaɪ̯nt]
The verdict
“scheint” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #496
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs scheinen
Corpus desk
Index DE-scheint · scheint · German
scheint · rank #496 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #496
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sache
Nearest frequency peer: Sache (-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 „scheint“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- niemand
niemand
99,508 corpus weight
- Politik
Politik
99,507 corpus weight
- Sache
Sache
99,506 corpus weight
- scheint
scheint
99,505 corpus weight
- zunächst
zunächst
99,504 corpus weight
- ALTE
ALTE
99,503 corpus weight
What this shows „scheint“ 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 | scheint |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃaɪ̯nt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „scheint“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around scheint (IPA [ʃaɪ̯nt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #496 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for scheint, with forms such as "csheint", "sccheint", and "scehint". 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, "Schenk", "schert", "scheut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 scheint, spelled S-C-H-E-I-N-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs scheinen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens des Verbs scheinen
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens des Verbs scheinen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csheint
- sccheint
- scehint
- scheinnt
- scheintt
- scheitn
- schenit
- schheint
- schient
- shceint
- sscheint
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scheint - 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 "scheint", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).