seel
[zeːl]
The verdict
“seel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,271) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,271
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs seelen
Corpus desk
Index DE-seel · seel · German
seel · rank #46,271 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,271
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sechsjährigen
Nearest frequency peer: sechsjährigen (-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 „seel“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- schätzten
schätzten
53,733 corpus weight
- schönreden
schönreden
53,732 corpus weight
- sechsjährig…
sechsjährigen
53,731 corpus weight
- seel
seel
53,730 corpus weight
- seelischer
seelischer
53,729 corpus weight
- Selbstläufer
Selbstläufer
53,728 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „seel“ 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 | seel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [zeːl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „seel“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for seel is neighbouring look-alikes ("sie", "sei", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [zeːl]. Frequency #46,271 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs seelen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for seel, including "seell" and "sseel". 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, "sie", "sei", "Sex", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 seel, spelled S-E-E-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs seelen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- seell
- sseel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seel - 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 "seel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).