Senke
[ˈzɛŋkə]
The verdict
“Senke” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,265. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,265
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - flache Vertiefung im Boden
Corpus desk
Index DE-senke · Senke · German
Senke · rank #32,265 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,265
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Seitenlinie
Nearest frequency peer: Seitenlinie (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Senke”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Seidl
Seidl
67,739 corpus weight
- seinesgleic…
seinesgleichen
67,738 corpus weight
- Seitenlinie
Seitenlinie
67,737 corpus weight
- Senke
Senke
67,736 corpus weight
- Setzung
Setzung
67,735 corpus weight
- shepherd
shepherd
67,734 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Senke” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Senke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛŋkə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Senke” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Senke (IPA [ˈzɛŋkə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,265 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Senke, with forms such as "esnke", "sekne", and "senek". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sone", "sens", "Serie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Senke, spelled S-E-N-K-E.
Definition
- 1flache Vertiefung im Boden
- 2feinmaschiges, quadratisches Netz mit zwei sich rechtwinklig überkreuzenden Draht- oder Kunststoffbügeln, an deren Mitte eine Schnur befestigt ist zum Zwecke des Fangs kleiner Köderfische
- 3Empfänger einer Nachricht
- 4Endpunkt einer Strömung bei Vektorfeldern mit negativer Divergenz (das Gegenteil einer )
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Senke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ebenen und Flachböden, die von Erhebungen, und seien diese noch so flach, umgeben sind, nennt man Senken.
„Er füllt eine Senke an der Nordwest-Grenze des Dorchester-Sumpfs aus.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnke
- sekne
- senek
- senkke
- sennke
- sneke
- ssenke
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Senke - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Senke", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Senke". Here's where to go from here.
- "Senke" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "sone". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #32,265 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.