Schwester
[ˈʃvɛstɐ]
The verdict
“Schwester” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,459. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,459
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weibliches Kind derselben Eltern
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwester · Schwester · German
Schwester · rank #1,459 · 15 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,459
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Prozess
Nearest frequency peer: Prozess (-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 „Schwester“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Netz
Netz
98,545 corpus weight
- normal
normal
98,544 corpus weight
- Prozess
Prozess
98,543 corpus weight
- Schwester
Schwester
98,542 corpus weight
- sprach
sprach
98,541 corpus weight
- vertreten
vertreten
98,539 corpus weight
What this shows „Schwester“ 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 | Schwester |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃvɛstɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schwester“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Schwester (IPA [ˈʃvɛstɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,459 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schwester, with forms such as "cshwester", "scchwester", and "schewster". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Schwestern", "schwerer", "Schuster", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Schwester, spelled S-C-H-W-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1weibliches Kind derselben Eltern
- 2Krankenschwester
- 3weibliche Person, die ihr Leben innerhalb der Kirche Gott gewidmet hat, einem Orden angehört
- 4weibliche Person, der man sich im Geiste verbunden fühlt
- 5homosexueller Mann
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schwester appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine Schwester geht in die 8. Klasse.
„Der kleine Bruder half der großen Schwester.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshwester
- scchwester
- schewster
- schhwester
- schwesetr
- schwesster
- schwesterr
- schwestre
- schwestter
- schwetser
- schwseter
- schwwester
- scwhester
- shcwester
- sschwester
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schwester - 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 "Schwester", 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).