Schmuck
[ʃmʊk]
The verdict
“Schmuck” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,736
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objekte oder Elemente, die der Verschönerung oder Verzierung eines Gegenstandes oder eines Lebewesens dienen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmuck · Schmuck · German
Schmuck · rank #4,736 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,736
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schlimmste
Nearest frequency peer: schlimmste (-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 „Schmuck“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Roboter
Roboter
95,268 corpus weight
- Roland
Roland
95,267 corpus weight
- schlimmste
schlimmste
95,266 corpus weight
- Schmuck
Schmuck
95,265 corpus weight
- sicheren
sicheren
95,264 corpus weight
- SP
SP
95,263 corpus weight
What this shows „Schmuck“ 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 | Schmuck |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃmʊk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schmuck“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Schmuck (IPA [ʃmʊk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,736 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schmuck, with forms such as "cshmuck", "scchmuck", and "schhmuck". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Schock", "Schmutz", "Schreck", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Schmuck, spelled S-C-H-M-U-C-K.
Definition
- 1Objekte oder Elemente, die der Verschönerung oder Verzierung eines Gegenstandes oder eines Lebewesens dienen
- 2Objekte, die zur Zierde von Personen oder deren Kleidung dienen, wie zum Beispiel Tattoos
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schmuck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Man sollte bei Bildern nicht den Rahmen beachten, der ist meist nur Schmuck.
Manche Personen zeigen gerne ihren Schmuck.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshmuck
- scchmuck
- schhmuck
- schmcuk
- schmmuck
- schmucck
- schmuckk
- schmukc
- schumck
- scmhuck
- shcmuck
- sschmuck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schmuck - 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 "Schmuck", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).