Sense
[ˈzɛnzə]
The verdict
“Sense” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,129. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,129
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - scharfes Werkzeug mit langem Stiel zum Mähen von Gras, Getreide und Ähnlichem
Corpus desk
Index DE-sense · Sense · German
Sense · rank #17,129 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,129
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH selbstständig…
Nearest frequency peer: selbstständigen (-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 „Sense“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schärfe
schärfe
82,875 corpus weight
- schöpfen
schöpfen
82,874 corpus weight
- selbstständ…
selbstständigen
82,873 corpus weight
- Sense
Sense
82,872 corpus weight
- Seoul
Seoul
82,871 corpus weight
- Serben
Serben
82,870 corpus weight
What this shows „Sense“ 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 | Sense |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛnzə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Sense“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Sense (IPA [ˈzɛnzə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,129 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "scharfes Werkzeug mit langem Stiel zum Mähen von Gras, Getreide und Ähnlichem".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sense, with forms such as "esnse", "senes", and "sennse". 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, "ses", "sets", "sons", 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 Sense, spelled S-E-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1scharfes Werkzeug mit langem Stiel zum Mähen von Gras, Getreide und Ähnlichem
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sense appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mein Großvater mäht mit der Sense das Gras.
„Und als er die Peitsche hob, war ich bereits zur Stelle und hieb sie mit einem einzigen Schlag meines Degens mitten entzwei, so wie eine Sense Gras schneidet.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnse
- senes
- sennse
- sensse
- sesne
- snese
- ssense
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sense - 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 "Sense", 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).