Schmitt
[ʃmɪt]
The verdict
“Schmitt” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,803. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,803
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutschsprachiger Familienname
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmitt · Schmitt · German
Schmitt · rank #9,803 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,803
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schlucken
Nearest frequency peer: schlucken (-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 „Schmitt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ruhigen
ruhigen
90,201 corpus weight
- schlimmes
schlimmes
90,200 corpus weight
- schlucken
schlucken
90,199 corpus weight
- Schmitt
Schmitt
90,198 corpus weight
- schockiert
schockiert
90,197 corpus weight
- Schulzeit
Schulzeit
90,196 corpus weight
What this shows „Schmitt“ 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 | Schmitt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ʃmɪt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schmitt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Schmitt (IPA [ʃmɪt]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,803 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "deutschsprachiger Familienname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schmitt, with forms such as "cshmitt", "scchmitt", and "schhmitt". 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, "Schott", "schütt", "Schritt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Schmitt, spelled S-C-H-M-I-T-T.
Definition
- 1deutschsprachiger Familienname
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshmitt
- scchmitt
- schhmitt
- schimtt
- schmit
- schmmitt
- schmtit
- scmhitt
- shcmitt
- sschmitt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schmitt - 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 "Schmitt", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).