schwänzen
[ˈʃvɛnt͡sn̩]
The verdict
“schwänzen” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,118. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,118
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Veranstaltung oder ein Treffen trotz Verpflichtung nicht besuchen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwanzen · schwänzen · German
schwänzen · rank #24,118 · 15 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,118
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schwachstellen
Nearest frequency peer: Schwachstellen (-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 „schwänzen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schulleitung
Schulleitung
75,885 corpus weight
- Schwachstel…
Schwachstellen
75,884 corpus weight
- schwänzen
schwänzen
75,883 corpus weight
- Schädigung
Schädigung
75,882 corpus weight
- Schüssen
Schüssen
75,881 corpus weight
- section
section
75,880 corpus weight
What this shows „schwänzen“ 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 | schwänzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃvɛnt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schwänzen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around schwänzen (IPA [ˈʃvɛnt͡sn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,118 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine Veranstaltung oder ein Treffen trotz Verpflichtung nicht besuchen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for schwänzen, with forms such as "cshwänzen", "scchwänzen", and "schhwänzen". 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, "Schwarze", "Schwarzer", "schwarzes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is schwänzen, spelled S-C-H-W-Ä-N-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Veranstaltung oder ein Treffen trotz Verpflichtung nicht besuchen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schwänzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hast du heute auch Englisch geschwänzt?
„Bei ihm bekam ich nämlich Atteste, um die Schule zu schwänzen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshwänzen
- scchwänzen
- schhwänzen
- schwnäzen
- schwwänzen
- schwänezn
- schwännzen
- schwänzenn
- schwänzne
- schwänzzen
- schwäznen
- schäwnzen
- scwhänzen
- shcwänzen
- sschwänzen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schwänzen - 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 "schwänzen", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).