Seile
[ˈzaɪ̯lə]
The verdict
“Seile” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,766
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Seil
Corpus desk
Index DE-seile · Seile · German
Seile · rank #21,766 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,766
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sechzehn
Nearest frequency peer: sechzehn (-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 „Seile“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schleichen
schleichen
78,238 corpus weight
- schwächere
schwächere
78,237 corpus weight
- sechzehn
sechzehn
78,236 corpus weight
- Seile
Seile
78,235 corpus weight
- Sekretariat
Sekretariat
78,234 corpus weight
- sharing
sharing
78,233 corpus weight
What this shows „Seile“ 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 | Seile |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzaɪ̯lə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Seile“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Seile (IPA [ˈzaɪ̯lə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,766 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Seile, with forms such as "esile", "seiel", and "seille". 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", "sel", "sil", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Seile, spelled S-E-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Seil
- 2Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Seil
- 3Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Seil
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Seil
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esile
- seiel
- seille
- selie
- siele
- sseile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Seile - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Seile", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).