Schonen
[ˈʃoːnən]
The verdict
“Schonen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,380. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,380
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Landschaft in Schweden
Corpus desk
Index DE-schonen · Schonen · German
Schonen · rank #12,380 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,380
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH scholl
Nearest frequency peer: scholl (-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 „Schonen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schmutzig
schmutzig
87,625 corpus weight
- schob
schob
87,623 corpus weight
- scholl
scholl
87,622 corpus weight
- Schonen
Schonen
87,621 corpus weight
- seltsamen
seltsamen
87,620 corpus weight
- Senkung
Senkung
87,619 corpus weight
What this shows „Schonen“ 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 | Schonen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃoːnən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schonen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Schonen (IPA [ˈʃoːnən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,380 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schonen, with forms such as "cshonen", "scchonen", and "schhonen". 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, "Söhnen", "sehnen", "schont", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Schonen, spelled S-C-H-O-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1Landschaft in Schweden
- 2Verwaltungsgebiet in Schweden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schonen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Letzte Woche war ich in Schonen.
das Schonen des 17. Jahrhunderts
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshonen
- scchonen
- schhonen
- schnoen
- schoenn
- schonenn
- schonne
- schonnen
- scohnen
- shconen
- sschonen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schonen - 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 "Schonen", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).