Schreibfehler
[ˈʃʁaɪ̯pˌfeːlɐ]
The verdict
“Schreibfehler” has 21 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,899
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fehler in einem geschriebenen Text im Hinblick auf Interpunktion oder Orthografie
Corpus desk
Index DE-schreibfehler · Schreibfehler · German
Schreibfehler · rank #34,899 · 21 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,899
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schleppend
Nearest frequency peer: schleppend (-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 „Schreibfehler“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schatzkammer
Schatzkammer
65,105 corpus weight
- Schenker
Schenker
65,104 corpus weight
- schleppend
schleppend
65,103 corpus weight
- Schreibfehl…
Schreibfehler
65,102 corpus weight
- schwieg
schwieg
65,101 corpus weight
- Seenplatte
Seenplatte
65,100 corpus weight
What this shows „Schreibfehler“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schreibfehler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃʁaɪ̯pˌfeːlɐ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #34,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schreibfehler“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around Schreibfehler (IPA [ˈʃʁaɪ̯pˌfeːlɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,899 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fehler in einem geschriebenen Text im Hinblick auf Interpunktion oder Orthografie".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schreibfehler, with forms such as "cshreibfehler", "scchreibfehler", and "scheribfehler". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schreibfehler, spelled S-C-H-R-E-I-B-F-E-H-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fehler in einem geschriebenen Text im Hinblick auf Interpunktion oder Orthografie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schreibfehler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Briefe, die ich schrieb, strotzten, wie ich erfuhr, von Schreibfehlern.“
„Die Postbeamtin wollte ihre Papiere wegen dieses Schreibfehlers nicht annehmen.“
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshreibfehler
- scchreibfehler
- scheribfehler
- schhreibfehler
- schrebifehler
- schreibbfehler
- schreibefhler
- schreibfehelr
- schreibfehhler
- schreibfehlerr
- schreibfehller
- schreibfehlre
- schreibfelher
- schreibffehler
- schreibfheler
- schreifbehler
- schriebfehler
- schrreibfehler
- scrheibfehler
- shcreibfehler
- sschreibfehler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schreibfehler - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Schreibfehler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).