schminken
[ˈʃmɪŋkn̩]
The verdict
“schminken” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #26,157. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,157
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Haut, Gesicht oder Augen mit Hilfe von Schminke farblich gestalten
Corpus desk
Index DE-schminken · schminken · German
schminken · rank #26,157 · 15 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,157
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schläuche
Nearest frequency peer: Schläuche (-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 „schminken“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schickes
Schickes
73,848 corpus weight
- Schlachthof
Schlachthof
73,847 corpus weight
- Schlinge
Schlinge
73,846 corpus weight
- Schläuche
Schläuche
73,845 corpus weight
- schminken
schminken
73,844 corpus weight
- Schreibens
Schreibens
73,842 corpus weight
What this shows „schminken“ 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 | schminken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃmɪŋkn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schminken“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around schminken (IPA [ˈʃmɪŋkn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,157 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Haut, Gesicht oder Augen mit Hilfe von Schminke farblich gestalten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for schminken, with forms such as "cshminken", "scchminken", and "schhminken". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "schwingen", "Schranken", "schmücken", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 schminken, spelled S-C-H-M-I-N-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Haut, Gesicht oder Augen mit Hilfe von Schminke farblich gestalten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schminken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Für die Feier schminkte sich Julia, um besonders hübsch auszusehen.
Vor der Sendung wird der Moderator in der Maske geschminkt.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshminken
- scchminken
- schhminken
- schimnken
- schmiknen
- schminekn
- schminkenn
- schminkken
- schminkne
- schminnken
- schmminken
- schmniken
- scmhinken
- shcminken
- sschminken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schminken - 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 "schminken", 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).