Schmiede
[ˈʃmiːdə]
The verdict
“Schmiede” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,401
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ort oder Werkstatt, ausgestattet mit einer oder mehreren Schmiedefeuern, Essen, Blasebälgen und Werkzeugen zum Zwecke der Metallbearbeitung, wie zum Beispiel dem Amboss; hier gehen Schmiede ihrem H...
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmiede · Schmiede · German
Schmiede · rank #17,401 · 12 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,401
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schlüpfen
Nearest frequency peer: schlüpfen (-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 „Schmiede“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schaft
Schaft
82,603 corpus weight
- Scherben
Scherben
82,602 corpus weight
- schlüpfen
schlüpfen
82,601 corpus weight
- Schmiede
Schmiede
82,600 corpus weight
- Schott
Schott
82,599 corpus weight
- Schub
Schub
82,598 corpus weight
What this shows „Schmiede“ 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 | Schmiede |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃmiːdə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schmiede“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Schmiede (IPA [ˈʃmiːdə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,401 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ort oder Werkstatt, ausgestattet mit einer oder mehreren Schmiedefeuern, Essen, Blasebälgen und Werkzeugen zum Zwecke der Metallbearbeitung, wie zum Beispiel dem Amboss; hier gehen Schmiede ihrem H...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schmiede, with forms such as "cshmiede", "scchmiede", and "schhmiede". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "Schwede", "Schminke", "schmiert", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Schmiede, spelled S-C-H-M-I-E-D-E.
Definition
- 1Ort oder Werkstatt, ausgestattet mit einer oder mehreren Schmiedefeuern, Essen, Blasebälgen und Werkzeugen zum Zwecke der Metallbearbeitung, wie zum Beispiel dem Amboss; hier gehen Schmiede ihrem Handwerk nach
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schmiede appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In den Stätten der Zwerge fand man unzählige Schmieden in denen die schärfsten und größten Äxte des gesamten Landes geschmiedet wurden.
„Den Besuchern schlagen das Dröhnen der Schmieden und der Gestank von Tausend Misthaufen entgegen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshmiede
- scchmiede
- schhmiede
- schimede
- schmeide
- schmidee
- schmiedde
- schmieed
- schmmiede
- scmhiede
- shcmiede
- sschmiede
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schmiede - 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 "Schmiede", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).