Schlagzeile
[ˈʃlaːkˌt͡saɪ̯lə]
The verdict
“Schlagzeile” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,273. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,273
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - besonders auffällig aufgemachte Überschrift, vor allem auf Plakaten, in der Presse und Werbung
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlagzeile · Schlagzeile · German
Schlagzeile · rank #16,273 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,273
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH scheidet
Nearest frequency peer: scheidet (-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 „Schlagzeile“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Santiago
Santiago
83,731 corpus weight
- Santos
Santos
83,730 corpus weight
- scheidet
scheidet
83,729 corpus weight
- Schlagzeile
Schlagzeile
83,728 corpus weight
- Schleuse
Schleuse
83,727 corpus weight
- schlichte
schlichte
83,726 corpus weight
What this shows „Schlagzeile“ 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 | Schlagzeile |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃlaːkˌt͡saɪ̯lə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schlagzeile“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Schlagzeile (IPA [ˈʃlaːkˌt͡saɪ̯lə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,273 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "besonders auffällig aufgemachte Überschrift, vor allem auf Plakaten, in der Presse und Werbung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schlagzeile, with forms such as "cshlagzeile", "scchlagzeile", and "schalgzeile". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Schlagzeilen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Schlagzeile, spelled S-C-H-L-A-G-Z-E-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1besonders auffällig aufgemachte Überschrift, vor allem auf Plakaten, in der Presse und Werbung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schlagzeile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Besonders auffällig sind die Schlagzeilen in der Boulevardpresse.
„Und es sind ja wirklich keine positiven Schlagzeilen, die quer durch die Republik über den so beschaulichen und doch so betriebsamen Landstrich veröffentlicht werden.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshlagzeile
- scchlagzeile
- schalgzeile
- schhlagzeile
- schlagezile
- schlaggzeile
- schlagzeiel
- schlagzeille
- schlagzelie
- schlagziele
- schlagzzeile
- schlazgeile
- schlgazeile
- schllagzeile
- sclhagzeile
- shclagzeile
- sschlagzeile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schlagzeile - 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 "Schlagzeile", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).