Schiller
[ˈʃɪlɐ]
The verdict
“Schiller” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,987
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutscher Familienname
Corpus desk
Index DE-schiller · Schiller · German
Schiller · rank #7,987 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,987
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH SAP
Nearest frequency peer: SAP (-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 „Schiller“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Ruhm
Ruhm
92,017 corpus weight
- Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken
92,016 corpus weight
- SAP
SAP
92,015 corpus weight
- Schiller
Schiller
92,014 corpus weight
- Schmid
Schmid
92,013 corpus weight
- speisen
speisen
92,012 corpus weight
What this shows „Schiller“ 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 | Schiller |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃɪlɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schiller“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Schiller (IPA [ˈʃɪlɐ]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,987 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "deutscher Familienname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schiller, with forms such as "cshiller", "scchiller", and "schhiller". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Schüler", "stiller", "Scholle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schiller, spelled S-C-H-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1deutscher Familienname
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Niemand an der Hochschule ist so bewandert in Lasertechnik wie Professor Schiller.
„Den einen galt Schiller als Dichter der Freiheit, anderen als Verteidiger bürgerlicher Gesittung.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshiller
- scchiller
- schhiller
- schilelr
- schiler
- schillerr
- schillre
- schliler
- scihller
- shciller
- sschiller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schiller - 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 "Schiller", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).