section
[sɛk.sjɔ̃]
The verdict
“section” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,121
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sektion
Corpus desk
Index DE-section · section · German
section · rank #24,121 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,121
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schüssen
Nearest frequency peer: Schüssen (-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 „section“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schwänzen
schwänzen
75,883 corpus weight
- Schädigung
Schädigung
75,882 corpus weight
- Schüssen
Schüssen
75,881 corpus weight
- section
section
75,880 corpus weight
- seitliche
seitliche
75,879 corpus weight
- Seminars
Seminars
75,878 corpus weight
What this shows „section“ 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 | section |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sɛk.sjɔ̃] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „section“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around section (IPA [sɛk.sjɔ̃]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,121 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sektion".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for section, with forms such as "esction", "scetion", and "secction". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Station", "Session", "Sektion", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 section, spelled S-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Sektion
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esction
- scetion
- secction
- seciton
- sectino
- sectionn
- sectoin
- secttion
- setcion
- ssection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of section - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "section", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).