schrumpft
[ʃʁʊmp͡ft]
The verdict
“schrumpft” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,501. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,501
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schrumpfen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schrumpft · schrumpft · German
schrumpft · rank #24,501 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,501
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schnelleren
Nearest frequency peer: schnelleren (-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 „schrumpft“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schleudern
schleudern
75,503 corpus weight
- schmieren
schmieren
75,502 corpus weight
- schnelleren
schnelleren
75,501 corpus weight
- schrumpft
schrumpft
75,500 corpus weight
- Schulkinder
Schulkinder
75,499 corpus weight
- Schwerpunkt…
Schwerpunkten
75,498 corpus weight
What this shows „schrumpft“ 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 | schrumpft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃʁʊmp͡ft] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schrumpft“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around schrumpft (IPA [ʃʁʊmp͡ft]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,501 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for schrumpft, with forms such as "cshrumpft", "scchrumpft", and "schhrumpft". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "schimpft", "schlüpft", "Schlumpf", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is schrumpft, spelled S-C-H-R-U-M-P-F-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schrumpfen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schrumpfen
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schrumpfen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshrumpft
- scchrumpft
- schhrumpft
- schrmupft
- schrrumpft
- schrumfpt
- schrummpft
- schrumpfft
- schrumpftt
- schrumppft
- schrumptf
- schrupmft
- schurmpft
- scrhumpft
- shcrumpft
- sschrumpft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schrumpft - 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 "schrumpft", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).