Schmied
[ʃmiːt]
The verdict
“Schmied” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,716
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Handwerker, der Metalle mittels Feuer und Schlagwerkzeugen bearbeitet
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmied · Schmied · German
Schmied · rank #17,716 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,716
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schlagartig
Nearest frequency peer: schlagartig (-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 „Schmied“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schenke
Schenke
82,288 corpus weight
- Schlachtfeld
Schlachtfeld
82,287 corpus weight
- schlagartig
schlagartig
82,286 corpus weight
- Schmied
Schmied
82,285 corpus weight
- schmücken
schmücken
82,284 corpus weight
- schnellere
schnellere
82,283 corpus weight
What this shows „Schmied“ 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 | Schmied |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃmiːt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schmied“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Schmied (IPA [ʃmiːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,716 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Handwerker, der Metalle mittels Feuer und Schlagwerkzeugen bearbeitet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schmied, with forms such as "cshmied", "scchmied", and "schhmied". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "schrie", "schrieb", "Schmitt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Schmied, spelled S-C-H-M-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Handwerker, der Metalle mittels Feuer und Schlagwerkzeugen bearbeitet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schmied appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diesmal lassen wir uns einen Metallzaun vom Schmied herstellen.
„Die Nacht war früher als sonst hereingebrochen, als eine junge Frau den Schmied mit ihrer Ziege aufsuchte.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshmied
- scchmied
- schhmied
- schimed
- schmeid
- schmide
- schmiedd
- schmmied
- scmhied
- shcmied
- sschmied
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schmied - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Schmied", 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).