Schrei
[ʃʁaɪ̯]
The verdict
“Schrei” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,088. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,088
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein plötzlich ausgestoßener, lauter Ruf als Reaktion auf äußere oder innere Reize
Corpus desk
Index DE-schrei · Schrei · German
Schrei · rank #9,088 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,088
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schneidet
Nearest frequency peer: schneidet (-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 „Schrei“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schmalen
schmalen
90,915 corpus weight
- schneidet
schneidet
90,914 corpus weight
- Schrei
Schrei
90,913 corpus weight
- Schulze
Schulze
90,912 corpus weight
- schweizeris…
schweizerischen
90,911 corpus weight
- Schwerpunkte
Schwerpunkte
90,910 corpus weight
What this shows „Schrei“ 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 | Schrei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schrei“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Schrei (IPA [ʃʁaɪ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,088 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schrei, with forms such as "cshrei", "scchrei", and "scheri". 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, "score", "schwer", "schrie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Schrei, spelled S-C-H-R-E-I.
Definition
- 1ein plötzlich ausgestoßener, lauter Ruf als Reaktion auf äußere oder innere Reize
- 2Verlangen nach etwas oder jemandem
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schrei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Schrei war zu hören, als wir uns vorsichtig dem dunklen Gebäude näherten.
Nur ein kurzer Schrei, und dann das erbärmliche Weinen eines Kindes, durch die Wände gedämpft.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshrei
- scchrei
- scheri
- schhrei
- schrrei
- scrhei
- shcrei
- sschrei
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schrei - 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 "Schrei", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).