Schrott
[ʃʁɔt]
The verdict
“Schrott” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,258. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,258
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abfall, der aus Metallen besteht
Corpus desk
Index DE-schrott · Schrott · German
Schrott · rank #9,258 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,258
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schnitzel
Nearest frequency peer: Schnitzel (-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 „Schrott“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sammler
Sammler
90,746 corpus weight
- Schnitzel
Schnitzel
90,744 corpus weight
- Schrott
Schrott
90,743 corpus weight
- schwarzes
schwarzes
90,742 corpus weight
- schwulen
schwulen
90,741 corpus weight
- seitlich
seitlich
90,740 corpus weight
What this shows „Schrott“ 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 | Schrott |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃʁɔt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schrott“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Schrott (IPA [ʃʁɔt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,258 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schrott, with forms such as "cshrott", "scchrott", and "schhrott". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "schütt", "Schott", "schont", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Schrott, spelled S-C-H-R-O-T-T.
Definition
- 1Abfall, der aus Metallen besteht
- 2abfällige Kritik an Gegenständen, Maßnahmen, Meinungen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schrott appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Schrott kann man einschmelzen und dann das Metall wieder verwerten.
„Inzwischen schmelzen die Polkappen, im Weltraum fliegt nur noch Schrott herum und bei dem Staatsdefizit will wohl auch keiner mehr Amerika entdecken.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshrott
- scchrott
- schhrott
- schortt
- schrot
- schrrott
- schrtot
- scrhott
- shcrott
- sschrott
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schrott - 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 "Schrott", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).