seitlich
[ˈzaɪ̯tlɪç]
The verdict
“seitlich” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,261
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - an der Seite, auf die Seite hin, von der Seite her
Corpus desk
Index DE-seitlich · seitlich · German
seitlich · rank #9,261 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,261
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schwulen
Nearest frequency peer: schwulen (-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 „seitlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schrott
Schrott
90,743 corpus weight
- schwarzes
schwarzes
90,742 corpus weight
- schwulen
schwulen
90,741 corpus weight
- seitlich
seitlich
90,740 corpus weight
- sichergeste…
sichergestellt
90,739 corpus weight
- siebten
siebten
90,738 corpus weight
What this shows „seitlich“ 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 | seitlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈzaɪ̯tlɪç] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „seitlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around seitlich (IPA [ˈzaɪ̯tlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,261 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "an der Seite, auf die Seite hin, von der Seite her".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for seitlich, with forms such as "esitlich", "seiltich", and "seitilch". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "seitliche", "seitlichen", "sämtlich", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is seitlich, spelled S-E-I-T-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1an der Seite, auf die Seite hin, von der Seite her
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seitlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eine seitliche Böe erfasste das Fahrzeug.
Das Schiff rammte uns seitlich.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esitlich
- seiltich
- seitilch
- seitlcih
- seitlicch
- seitlichh
- seitlihc
- seitllich
- seittlich
- setilich
- sietlich
- sseitlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seitlich - 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 "seitlich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).