sel
[sɛl]
The verdict
“sel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,762) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,762
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salz
Corpus desk
Index DE-sel · sel · German
sel · rank #30,762 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,762
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sehenswürdigk…
Nearest frequency peer: Sehenswürdigkeit (-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 „sel“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- schütten
schütten
69,242 corpus weight
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69,241 corpus weight
- Sehenswürdi…
Sehenswürdigkeit
69,240 corpus weight
- sel
sel
69,239 corpus weight
- selbstredend
selbstredend
69,238 corpus weight
- seltensten
seltensten
69,237 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „sel“ 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 | sel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sɛl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sel“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sel is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [sɛl]. Frequency #30,762 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Salz".
No misspelling variants are generated for sel in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is sel, spelled S-E-L.
Definition
- 1Salz
This word in other languages
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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