seal
[siːl]
The verdict
“seal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,260) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,260
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dichten, abdichten
Corpus desk
Index DE-seal · seal · German
seal · rank #32,260 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,260
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schweifen
Nearest frequency peer: schweifen (-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 „seal“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- 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
- seinesgleic…
seinesgleichen
67,738 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „seal“ 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 | seal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [siːl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „seal“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for seal is neighbouring look-alikes ("sei", "Sex", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [siːl]. Frequency #32,260 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for seal, with forms such as "esal", "seall", and "sela". 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, "sei", "Sex", "See", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is seal, spelled S-E-A-L.
Definition
- 1dichten, abdichten
- 2etwas besiegeln
- 3(einen Boden) versiegeln
- 4plombieren
- 5Seehunde jagen
- 6anbraten
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esal
- seall
- sela
- sseal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seal - 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 "seal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).