Selfie
[ˈsɛlfi]
The verdict
“Selfie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,387. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,387
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - meist mit dem Handy gemachte Bildaufnahme des Auslösenden selbst, in der Regel für den Gebrauch in sozialen Netzwerken bestimmt
Corpus desk
Index DE-selfie · Selfie · German
Selfie · rank #19,387 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,387
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Selbstverwalt…
Nearest frequency peer: Selbstverwaltung (-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 „Selfie“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schönem
schönem
80,617 corpus weight
- Seemann
Seemann
80,616 corpus weight
- Selbstverwa…
Selbstverwaltung
80,615 corpus weight
- Selfie
Selfie
80,614 corpus weight
- separate
separate
80,613 corpus weight
- Skifahren
Skifahren
80,611 corpus weight
What this shows „Selfie“ 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 | Selfie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsɛlfi] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Selfie“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Selfie (IPA [ˈsɛlfi]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,387 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "meist mit dem Handy gemachte Bildaufnahme des Auslösenden selbst, in der Regel für den Gebrauch in sozialen Netzwerken bestimmt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Selfie, with forms such as "eslfie", "seflie", and "selfei". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Serie", "selig", "Sofie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Selfie, spelled S-E-L-F-I-E.
Definition
- 1meist mit dem Handy gemachte Bildaufnahme des Auslösenden selbst, in der Regel für den Gebrauch in sozialen Netzwerken bestimmt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Selfie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Selfies sind Fotos, die man von sich selbst schießt. Meist, um sie danach in irgendeinem der interaktiven Chatportale des Internets hochzuladen, am häufigsten bei Facebook.“
„Selfies sind eine weitere dieser kleinen digitalen Drogen, ohne die viele nicht mehr können.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eslfie
- seflie
- selfei
- selffie
- selife
- sellfie
- slefie
- sselfie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Selfie - 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 "Selfie", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).