schleichen
[ˈʃlaɪ̯çn̩]
The verdict
“schleichen” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,763. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,763
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lautlos gehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schleichen · schleichen · German
schleichen · rank #21,763 · 16 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,763
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schlechteren
Nearest frequency peer: schlechteren (-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 „schleichen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schiefer
Schiefer
78,241 corpus weight
- schlechteren
schlechteren
78,239 corpus weight
- schleichen
schleichen
78,238 corpus weight
- schwächere
schwächere
78,237 corpus weight
- sechzehn
sechzehn
78,236 corpus weight
- Seile
Seile
78,235 corpus weight
What this shows „schleichen“ 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 | schleichen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃlaɪ̯çn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schleichen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around schleichen (IPA [ˈʃlaɪ̯çn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,763 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for schleichen, with forms such as "cshleichen", "scchleichen", and "schelichen". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Schliche", "schleifen", "schleicht", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is schleichen, spelled S-C-H-L-E-I-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1lautlos gehen
- 2nur langsam vorankommen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schleichen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heute Nacht schlich er durch das Wohnzimmer, um sich ungestört an unserem Kühlschrank bedienen zu können.
Der Fahrer vor uns kennt sich hier wohl nicht aus, er schleicht mit 20 km/h um jede Kurve.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshleichen
- scchleichen
- schelichen
- schhleichen
- schlecihen
- schleicchen
- schleicehn
- schleichenn
- schleichhen
- schleichne
- schleihcen
- schliechen
- schlleichen
- sclheichen
- shcleichen
- sschleichen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schleichen - 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 "schleichen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).