schuften
[ˈʃʊftn̩]
The verdict
“schuften” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,256. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,256
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hart/schwer arbeiten
Corpus desk
Index DE-schuften · schuften · German
schuften · rank #32,256 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,256
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schmuckstücke
Nearest frequency peer: Schmuckstücke (-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 „schuften“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schlampig
schlampig
67,749 corpus weight
- schleich
schleich
67,748 corpus weight
- Schluchten
Schluchten
67,747 corpus weight
- Schmuckstüc…
Schmuckstücke
67,746 corpus weight
- schuften
schuften
67,745 corpus weight
- schweifen
schweifen
67,742 corpus weight
What this shows „schuften“ 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 | schuften |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃʊftn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schuften“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around schuften (IPA [ˈʃʊftn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,256 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "hart/schwer arbeiten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for schuften, with forms such as "cshuften", "scchuften", and "schfuten". 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, "Schulen", "Schuhen", "Schulte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 schuften, spelled S-C-H-U-F-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1hart/schwer arbeiten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schuften appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir mussten ziemlich schuften, um noch rechtzeitig fertig zu werden.
„Und auch das ließ sich leicht bewerkstelligen, denn auf einer armen Insel gibt es natürlich jede Menge Arme, die bereit sind, für einen Hungerlohn zu schuften.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshuften
- scchuften
- schfuten
- schhuften
- schufetn
- schufften
- schuftenn
- schuftne
- schuftten
- schutfen
- scuhften
- shcuften
- sschuften
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schuften - 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 "schuften", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).