school

[skuːl]

/[skuːl]/ noun

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The verdict

“school” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,303. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,303
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schule

Corpus desk

Index DE-school · school · German

school · rank #5,303 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,303
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Schock

Nearest frequency peer: Schock (-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 „school“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „school“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

school vs schul
67% similar
school vs Schoss
50% similar
school vs schwul
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for school
PropertyValue
Headwordschool
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[skuːl]
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,303
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „school“

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).schoolliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Schock“ (#5,302), „schwanger“ (#5,304), „schlau“ (#5,301). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „school“ bei #5,303. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around school (IPA [skuːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,303 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Schule".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for school, with forms such as "cshool", "scchool", and "schhool". 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, "schul", "Schoss", "schwul", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 school, spelled S-C-H-O-O-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Schule

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how school appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "Ethnic variations in family structure, parenting styles, and life course expectations all acerbate miscommunication, and many U.S. teachers from middle-class backgrounds perceive themselves and their schools as being under siege."

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cshool
  • scchool
  • schhool
  • schol
  • scholo
  • schooll
  • scohol
  • shcool
  • sschool

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of school - 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.

cshool2scchool1schhool1schol1scholo2schooll1scohol2shcool2
Edit distance from "school"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "school"?
"school" is spelled S-C-H-O-O-L. The IPA pronunciation is [skuːl].
What does "school" mean?
As a noun, "school" means: Schule
What words are commonly confused with "school"?
"school" is commonly confused with "schul", "Schoss", "schwul". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "school"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "school" is [skuːl]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "school" come from?
"school" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "school", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Schock#5,302schlau#5,301schwul#5,305sagten#5,300

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

sexuelle9 variantsProben9 variantsSoldat9 variantsMichel9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list