Schwierigkeit
[ˈʃviːʁɪçkaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Schwierigkeit” has 20 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,477
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aufgabe, Eigenschaft, Lage oder Situation, die Ärger machen oder ein Problem darstellen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwierigkeit · Schwierigkeit · German
Schwierigkeit · rank #13,477 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #13,477
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schreibweise
Nearest frequency peer: Schreibweise (-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 „Schwierigkeit“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Satan
Satan
86,528 corpus weight
- schlechtest…
schlechtesten
86,527 corpus weight
- Schlosses
Schlosses
86,526 corpus weight
- Schreibweise
Schreibweise
86,525 corpus weight
- Schwierigke…
Schwierigkeit
86,524 corpus weight
- Sexismus
Sexismus
86,521 corpus weight
What this shows „Schwierigkeit“ 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 | Schwierigkeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃviːʁɪçkaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #13,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Schwierigkeit“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around Schwierigkeit (IPA [ˈʃviːʁɪçkaɪ̯t]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,477 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Aufgabe, Eigenschaft, Lage oder Situation, die Ärger machen oder ein Problem darstellen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schwierigkeit, with forms such as "cshwierigkeit", "scchwierigkeit", and "schhwierigkeit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Schwierigkeiten", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Schwierigkeit, spelled S-C-H-W-I-E-R-I-G-K-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1Aufgabe, Eigenschaft, Lage oder Situation, die Ärger machen oder ein Problem darstellen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schwierigkeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit der Aufgabe hatte er große Schwierigkeiten.
Die Deutsche Bank ist ja seit Jahren in Schwierigkeiten und es wird wahrscheinlich in der nächsten Zeit auch nicht deutlich besser werden.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshwierigkeit
- scchwierigkeit
- schhwierigkeit
- schiwerigkeit
- schweirigkeit
- schwieirgkeit
- schwiergikeit
- schwierigekit
- schwieriggkeit
- schwierigkeitt
- schwierigketi
- schwierigkiet
- schwierigkkeit
- schwierikgeit
- schwierrigkeit
- schwireigkeit
- schwwierigkeit
- scwhierigkeit
- shcwierigkeit
- sschwierigkeit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schwierigkeit - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).