schweifen
[ˈʃvaɪ̯fn̩]
The verdict
“schweifen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,259. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,259
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich ohne festes Ziel in einem Bereich bewegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schweifen · schweifen · German
schweifen · rank #32,259 · 14 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,259
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH seal
Nearest frequency peer: seal (+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 „schweifen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schmuckstüc…
Schmuckstücke
67,746 corpus weight
- schuften
schuften
67,745 corpus weight
- schweifen
schweifen
67,742 corpus weight
- seal
seal
67,741 corpus weight
- segne
segne
67,740 corpus weight
- Seidl
Seidl
67,739 corpus weight
What this shows „schweifen“ 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 | schweifen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃvaɪ̯fn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schweifen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around schweifen (IPA [ˈʃvaɪ̯fn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,259 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for schweifen, with forms such as "cshweifen", "scchweifen", and "schewifen". 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, "Schwein", "schweren", "Schweine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is schweifen, spelled S-C-H-W-E-I-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich ohne festes Ziel in einem Bereich bewegen
- 2etwas biegen, in eine gebogene Form bringen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schweifen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir schweifen durch einen Ort.
„Anders als diese Völker, die in der Regel raubend und verwüstend durchs Land geschweift waren, wollten sich die Langobarden hier dauerhaft niederlassen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshweifen
- scchweifen
- schewifen
- schhweifen
- schwefien
- schweiefn
- schweifenn
- schweiffen
- schweifne
- schwiefen
- schwweifen
- scwheifen
- shcweifen
- sschweifen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schweifen - 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 "schweifen", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).