schwänze
[ˈʃvɛnt͡sə]
The verdict
“schwänze” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,406
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwänzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwanze · schwänze · German
schwänze · rank #14,406 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,406
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schwindel
Nearest frequency peer: Schwindel (-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 „schwänze“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schweben
schweben
85,598 corpus weight
- schwersten
schwersten
85,597 corpus weight
- Schwindel
Schwindel
85,596 corpus weight
- schwänze
schwänze
85,595 corpus weight
- Seattle
Seattle
85,594 corpus weight
- Seide
Seide
85,593 corpus weight
What this shows „schwänze“ 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 | schwänze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃvɛnt͡sə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schwänze“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around schwänze (IPA [ˈʃvɛnt͡sə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,406 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 schwänze, with forms such as "cshwänze", "scchwänze", and "schhwänze". 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, "Schwaz", "schwarz", "Schwarze", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 schwänze, spelled S-C-H-W-Ä-N-Z-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwänzen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwänzen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwänzen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwänzen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshwänze
- scchwänze
- schhwänze
- schwnäze
- schwwänze
- schwänez
- schwännze
- schwänzze
- schwäzne
- schäwnze
- scwhänze
- shcwänze
- sschwänze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schwänze - 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 "schwänze", 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).