Schwachsinn
[ˈʃvaxˌzɪn]
The verdict
“Schwachsinn” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,724. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,724
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - geistige Behinderung, bei der ein Intelligenzquotient von unter 70 vorliegt
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwachsinn · Schwachsinn · German
Schwachsinn · rank #6,724 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,724
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schwaben
Nearest frequency peer: Schwaben (-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 „Schwachsinn“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schrecken
Schrecken
93,280 corpus weight
- schreibst
schreibst
93,279 corpus weight
- Schwaben
Schwaben
93,278 corpus weight
- Schwachsinn
Schwachsinn
93,277 corpus weight
- semester
semester
93,276 corpus weight
- Stich
Stich
93,275 corpus weight
What this shows „Schwachsinn“ 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 | Schwachsinn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃvaxˌzɪn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schwachsinn“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Schwachsinn (IPA [ˈʃvaxˌzɪn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,724 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schwachsinn, with forms such as "cshwachsinn", "scchwachsinn", and "schawchsinn". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "schwächsten", "schwachsinnig", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Schwachsinn, spelled S-C-H-W-A-C-H-S-I-N-N.
Definition
- 1geistige Behinderung, bei der ein Intelligenzquotient von unter 70 vorliegt
- 2etwas Unsinniges
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schwachsinn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei Schwachsinn ist das Risiko an einer psychischen Störung zu erkranken drei- bis viermal höher als bei Normalbegabung.
„Die Brüder waren von einem Phlegma, das an Schwachsinn grenzte, und solange sie samstagsabends ein wenig Geld verdienen und vor einer verständnisvollen Zuhörerschaft spielen konnten, fiel es ihnen nicht weiter auf, daß alles nach Hewlitts Kopf ging.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshwachsinn
- scchwachsinn
- schawchsinn
- schhwachsinn
- schwacchsinn
- schwachhsinn
- schwachisnn
- schwachsin
- schwachsnin
- schwachssinn
- schwacshinn
- schwahcsinn
- schwcahsinn
- schwwachsinn
- scwhachsinn
- shcwachsinn
- sschwachsinn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schwachsinn - 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 "Schwachsinn", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).