scherze
[ˈʃɛʁt͡sə]
The verdict
“scherze” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,110
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scherzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-scherze · scherze · German
scherze · rank #24,110 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,110
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Scherer
Nearest frequency peer: Scherer (-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 „scherze“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schadstoffe
Schadstoffe
75,894 corpus weight
- Schatzmeist…
Schatzmeister
75,893 corpus weight
- Scherer
Scherer
75,892 corpus weight
- scherze
scherze
75,891 corpus weight
- schiebe
schiebe
75,890 corpus weight
- schlapp
schlapp
75,889 corpus weight
What this shows „scherze“ 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 | scherze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃɛʁt͡sə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „scherze“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around scherze (IPA [ˈʃɛʁt͡sə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,110 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for scherze, with forms such as "csherze", "sccherze", and "scehrze". 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, "schrie", "scheue", "schwere", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 scherze, spelled S-C-H-E-R-Z-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scherzen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scherzen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scherzen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scherzen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csherze
- sccherze
- scehrze
- scherez
- scherrze
- scherzze
- schezre
- schherze
- schreze
- shcerze
- sscherze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scherze - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "scherze", 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).