Selbstzweifel

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Selbstzweifel is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzɛlpstˌt͡svaɪ̯fl̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,581 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unsicherheit darüber, was man selbst tut, kann oder will".

Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for Selbstzweifel, with forms such as "eslbstzweifel", "seblstzweifel", and "selbbstzweifel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Selbstzweifel, spelled S-E-L-B-S-T-Z-W-E-I-F-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.