Schnupfen
[ˈʃnʊp͡fn̩]
The verdict
“Schnupfen” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,414. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,414
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Handlung, Genuss- oder Rauschmittel über die Nase zu inhalieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-schnupfen · Schnupfen · German
Schnupfen · rank #21,414 · 15 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,414
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schiffs
Nearest frequency peer: Schiffs (-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 „Schnupfen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- sauberes
sauberes
78,590 corpus weight
- scharfer
scharfer
78,589 corpus weight
- Schiffs
Schiffs
78,588 corpus weight
- Schnupfen
Schnupfen
78,587 corpus weight
- Schwefel
Schwefel
78,586 corpus weight
- Schwingungen
Schwingungen
78,585 corpus weight
What this shows „Schnupfen“ 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 | Schnupfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃnʊp͡fn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schnupfen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Schnupfen (IPA [ˈʃnʊp͡fn̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,414 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Handlung, Genuss- oder Rauschmittel über die Nase zu inhalieren".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schnupfen, with forms such as "cshnupfen", "scchnupfen", and "schhnupfen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Schuppen", "schöpfen", "schnüren", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists 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 Schnupfen, spelled S-C-H-N-U-P-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1Handlung, Genuss- oder Rauschmittel über die Nase zu inhalieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Schnupfen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Außerdem verursachte das Niesen manchmal das Platzen einer Ader – und so gab er das Schnupfen auf.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshnupfen
- scchnupfen
- schhnupfen
- schnnupfen
- schnpufen
- schnufpen
- schnupefn
- schnupfenn
- schnupffen
- schnupfne
- schnuppfen
- schunpfen
- scnhupfen
- shcnupfen
- sschnupfen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schnupfen - 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 "Schnupfen", 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).