Schloss
[ʃlɔs]
The verdict
“Schloss” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,241. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,241
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - an einen Zugang montierte Schließvorrichtung
Corpus desk
Index DE-schloss · Schloss · German
Schloss · rank #1,241 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,241
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH richtigen
Nearest frequency peer: richtigen (-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 „Schloss“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Perfekt
Perfekt
98,763 corpus weight
- Position
Position
98,762 corpus weight
- richtigen
richtigen
98,761 corpus weight
- Schloss
Schloss
98,760 corpus weight
- Schutz
Schutz
98,759 corpus weight
- Studium
Studium
98,758 corpus weight
What this shows „Schloss“ 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 | Schloss |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃlɔs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schloss“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Schloss (IPA [ʃlɔs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,241 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schloss, with forms such as "cshloss", "scchloss", and "schhloss". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Schuss", "Schoss", "Schluss", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schloss, spelled S-C-H-L-O-S-S.
Definition
- 1an einen Zugang montierte Schließvorrichtung
- 2prunkvolles und repräsentatives Wohngebäude
- 3Schnappverschluss
- 4Teil einer Feuerwaffe, welcher die Ladung zündet
- 5zahnartige Vorsprünge an beiden Seiten der Schale einer Muschel
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schloss appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er hat versehentlich den Schlüssel im Schloss von außen stecken lassen.
„Eines der drei Schlösser an der Wohnungstür ließ sich wie immer nur öffnen, wenn Ramin die Tür mit ganzer Kraft an- und gleichzeitig hochzog.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshloss
- scchloss
- schhloss
- schlloss
- schlos
- schloß
- schlsos
- scholss
- sclhoss
- shcloss
- sschloss
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schloss - 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 "Schloss", 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).