seat
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The verdict
“seat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,927) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,927
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Sitz in einem Auto, Sitzplatz in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln oder im Theater
Corpus desk
Index DE-seat · seat · German
seat · rank #14,927 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,927
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schwamm
Nearest frequency peer: Schwamm (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “seat”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Schmetterli…
Schmetterlinge
85,077 corpus weight
- Schnitte
Schnitte
85,076 corpus weight
- Schwamm
Schwamm
85,075 corpus weight
- seat
seat
85,074 corpus weight
- senkrecht
senkrecht
85,073 corpus weight
- silberne
silberne
85,072 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “seat” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | seat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “seat” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for seat is neighbouring look-alikes ("sei", "Sex", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #14,927 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for seat, with forms such as "saet", "seatt", and "seta". 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 seat, spelled S-E-A-T.
Definition
- 1Sitz in einem Auto, Sitzplatz in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln oder im Theater
- 2Gesäß
- 3der Teil eines Gegenstandes auf dem man sitzen kann
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- saet
- seatt
- seta
- sseat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seat - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "seat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
You've looked up "seat". Here's where to go from here.
- "seat" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "sei". View pair
- 4 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #14,927 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.