Schranken
[ˈʃʁaŋkn̩]
The verdict
“Schranken” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,202
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vorrichtung zur Absperrung
Corpus desk
Index DE-schranken · Schranken · German
Schranken · rank #15,202 · 15 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,202
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schmutzige
Nearest frequency peer: schmutzige (-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 „Schranken“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schier
schier
84,802 corpus weight
- Schlägerei
Schlägerei
84,801 corpus weight
- schmutzige
schmutzige
84,800 corpus weight
- Schranken
Schranken
84,799 corpus weight
- Schriftstel…
Schriftstellerin
84,798 corpus weight
- Schulte
Schulte
84,797 corpus weight
What this shows „Schranken“ 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 | Schranken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃʁaŋkn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schranken“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Schranken (IPA [ˈʃʁaŋkn̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,202 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vorrichtung zur Absperrung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schranken, with forms such as "cshranken", "scchranken", and "scharnken". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "schwanke", "Schrecken", "schrauben", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Schranken, spelled S-C-H-R-A-N-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Vorrichtung zur Absperrung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Schranken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Zunächst versuchte eine Frau, die von der Klägerin im PKW mitgenommen war, den Schranken zu öffnen, was aber nicht gelang.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshranken
- scchranken
- scharnken
- schhranken
- schraknen
- schranekn
- schrankenn
- schrankken
- schrankne
- schrannken
- schrnaken
- schrranken
- scrhanken
- shcranken
- sschranken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schranken - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Schranken", 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).