sci
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The verdict
“sci” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,418) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,418
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Ski
Corpus desk
Index DE-sci · sci · German
sci · rank #21,418 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,418
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schwärmen
Nearest frequency peer: schwärmen (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „sci“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Schwefel
Schwefel
78,586 corpus weight
- Schwingungen
Schwingungen
78,585 corpus weight
- schwärmen
schwärmen
78,584 corpus weight
- sci
sci
78,583 corpus weight
- search
search
78,582 corpus weight
- seelischen
seelischen
78,581 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „sci“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | sci |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sci“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sci is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #21,418 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for sci in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "se", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is sci, spelled S-C-I.
Definition
- 1der Ski
- 2der Skisport
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).