select
[sɪˈlekt]
The verdict
“select” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,932. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,932
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden auswählen, etwas aussuchen, selektieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-select · select · German
select · rank #27,932 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,932
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH selbige
Nearest frequency peer: selbige (-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 „select“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- sekundär
sekundär
72,072 corpus weight
- Selb
Selb
72,071 corpus weight
- selbige
selbige
72,070 corpus weight
- select
select
72,069 corpus weight
- seufz
seufz
72,068 corpus weight
- sicherheits…
sicherheitshalber
72,067 corpus weight
What this shows „select“ 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 | select |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sɪˈlekt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „select“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around select (IPA [sɪˈlekt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,932 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for select, with forms such as "eslect", "seelct", and "selcet". 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, "silent", "Skelett", "selbst", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 select, spelled S-E-L-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1jemanden auswählen, etwas aussuchen, selektieren
- 2aus etwas auswählen, wählen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how select appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I have got two tasks for you. You may select one.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eslect
- seelct
- selcet
- selecct
- selectt
- seletc
- sellect
- sleect
- sselect
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of select - 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 "select", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).