Schlusslicht
[ˈʃlʊsˌlɪçt]
The verdict
“Schlusslicht” has 20 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,275. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,275
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Leuchte an der Rückseite eines Fahrzeugs
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlusslicht · Schlusslicht · German
Schlusslicht · rank #30,275 · 20 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,275
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sattler
Nearest frequency peer: Sattler (-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 „Schlusslicht“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sachbuch
Sachbuch
69,729 corpus weight
- Sachse
Sachse
69,728 corpus weight
- Sattler
Sattler
69,727 corpus weight
- Schlusslicht
Schlusslicht
69,726 corpus weight
- schnellstens
schnellstens
69,725 corpus weight
- Schreibmasc…
Schreibmaschine
69,724 corpus weight
What this shows „Schlusslicht“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schlusslicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃlʊsˌlɪçt] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #30,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schlusslicht“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around Schlusslicht (IPA [ˈʃlʊsˌlɪçt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,275 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schlusslicht, with forms such as "cshlusslicht", "scchlusslicht", and "schhlusslicht". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Schlusslicht, spelled S-C-H-L-U-S-S-L-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Leuchte an der Rückseite eines Fahrzeugs
- 2der Letzte in einer Gruppe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schlusslicht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Deutschland müssen Schlusslichter rot sein.
„Dein rechtes Schlusslicht ist ausgefallen, Du musst es reparieren.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshlusslicht
- scchlusslicht
- schhlusslicht
- schllusslicht
- schlsuslicht
- schluslicht
- schluslsicht
- schlussilcht
- schlusslciht
- schlussliccht
- schlusslichht
- schlusslichtt
- schlusslicth
- schlusslihct
- schlussllicht
- schlußlicht
- schulsslicht
- sclhusslicht
- shclusslicht
- sschlusslicht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schlusslicht - 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 "Schlusslicht", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).