schweigt
[ʃvaɪ̯kt]
The verdict
“schweigt” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,234. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,234
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schweigen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schweigt · schweigt · German
schweigt · rank #13,234 · 13 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,234
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schreie
Nearest frequency peer: schreie (-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 „schweigt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schlichtweg
schlichtweg
86,770 corpus weight
- schlief
schlief
86,769 corpus weight
- schreie
schreie
86,768 corpus weight
- schweigt
schweigt
86,767 corpus weight
- schweizeris…
schweizerische
86,766 corpus weight
- Schwelle
Schwelle
86,765 corpus weight
What this shows „schweigt“ 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 | schweigt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃvaɪ̯kt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schweigt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around schweigt (IPA [ʃvaɪ̯kt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,234 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for schweigt, with forms such as "cshweigt", "scchweigt", and "schewigt". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Schweiz", "Schwein", "Schwert", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is schweigt, spelled S-C-H-W-E-I-G-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schweigen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schweigen
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schweigen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshweigt
- scchweigt
- schewigt
- schhweigt
- schwegit
- schweiggt
- schweigtt
- schweitg
- schwiegt
- schwweigt
- scwheigt
- shcweigt
- sschweigt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schweigt - 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 "schweigt", 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).