schlummern
[ˈʃlʊmɐn]
The verdict
“schlummern” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,894. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,894
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ruhig, seicht schlafen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlummern · schlummern · German
schlummern · rank #44,894 · 15 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,894
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schlingel
Nearest frequency peer: Schlingel (-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 „schlummern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schiedsgeri…
Schiedsgerichte
55,110 corpus weight
- schiefgelau…
schiefgelaufen
55,109 corpus weight
- Schlingel
Schlingel
55,108 corpus weight
- schlummern
schlummern
55,107 corpus weight
- schlürfen
schlürfen
55,106 corpus weight
- schools
schools
55,104 corpus weight
What this shows „schlummern“ 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 | schlummern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃlʊmɐn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #44,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schlummern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around schlummern (IPA [ˈʃlʊmɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,894 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for schlummern, with forms such as "cshlummern", "scchlummern", and "schhlummern". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "schummeln", "schlummert", "schlimmer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is schlummern, spelled S-C-H-L-U-M-M-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1ruhig, seicht schlafen
- 2noch im Verborgenen sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schlummern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seid bitte leise, er schlummert noch!
Viele unentdeckte Talente schlummern noch in ihm.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshlummern
- scchlummern
- schhlummern
- schllummern
- schlmumern
- schlumemrn
- schlumern
- schlummenr
- schlummernn
- schlummerrn
- schlummren
- schulmmern
- sclhummern
- shclummern
- sschlummern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schlummern - 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 "schlummern", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).