Schwäche
[ˈʃvɛçə]
The verdict
“Schwäche” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,003. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,003
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mangelnde körperliche oder geistige Kraft
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwache · Schwäche · German
Schwäche · rank #6,003 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,003
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schickte
Nearest frequency peer: schickte (-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 „Schwäche“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Rosen
Rosen
94,001 corpus weight
- russisch
russisch
94,000 corpus weight
- schickte
schickte
93,999 corpus weight
- Schwäche
Schwäche
93,998 corpus weight
- Sohnes
Sohnes
93,997 corpus weight
- Sparkasse
Sparkasse
93,996 corpus weight
What this shows „Schwäche“ 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 | Schwäche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃvɛçə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schwäche“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Schwäche (IPA [ˈʃvɛçə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,003 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schwäche, with forms such as "cshwäche", "scchwäche", and "schhwäche". 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, "Schwäne", "Schwarze", "schwänze", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Schwäche, spelled S-C-H-W-Ä-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1mangelnde körperliche oder geistige Kraft
- 2charakterlicher Mangel
- 3besondere Neigung zu etwas
- 4sachliche Unvollkommenheit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schwäche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mich überkam plötzlich eine unerklärliche Schwäche in den Beinen.
„Wobei ich eine klitzekleine Schwäche habe, die ich den Damen gern verschweige.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshwäche
- scchwäche
- schhwäche
- schwcähe
- schwwäche
- schwäcche
- schwäceh
- schwächhe
- schwähce
- schäwche
- scwhäche
- shcwäche
- sschwäche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schwäche - 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 "Schwäche", 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).