schmälern
[ˈʃmɛːlɐn]
The verdict
“schmälern” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,760
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - geringer oder weniger machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmalern · schmälern · German
schmälern · rank #37,760 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,760
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schulmädchen
Nearest frequency peer: Schulmädchen (+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 „schmälern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schleichend
schleichend
62,244 corpus weight
- Schlossberg
Schlossberg
62,243 corpus weight
- schmälern
schmälern
62,241 corpus weight
- Schulmädchen
Schulmädchen
62,240 corpus weight
- schutzlos
schutzlos
62,239 corpus weight
- Schwalbach
Schwalbach
62,238 corpus weight
What this shows „schmälern“ 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 | schmälern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃmɛːlɐn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schmälern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around schmälern (IPA [ˈʃmɛːlɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,760 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "geringer oder weniger machen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for schmälern, with forms such as "cshmälern", "scchmälern", and "schhmälern". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Schülern", "schmales", "schmale", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is schmälern, spelled S-C-H-M-Ä-L-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1geringer oder weniger machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schmälern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die vielen Fehltritte, die sich der Berater leistete, werden seinen Verdienst nicht schmälern.
„Diese Profite wollten sie sich durch das Reich von Srivijaya, das die Meerenge von Malakka beherrschte, nicht schmälern lassen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshmälern
- scchmälern
- schhmälern
- schmläern
- schmmälern
- schmäelrn
- schmälenr
- schmälernn
- schmälerrn
- schmällern
- schmälren
- schämlern
- scmhälern
- shcmälern
- sschmälern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schmälern - 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 "schmälern", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).