Sensor
[ˈzɛnzoːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Sensor” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,409. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,409
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - technischer Fühler
Corpus desk
Index DE-sensor · Sensor · German
Sensor · rank #17,409 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,409
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schwören
Nearest frequency peer: schwören (-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 „Sensor“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schwedens
Schwedens
82,595 corpus weight
- Schwiegerso…
Schwiegersohn
82,594 corpus weight
- schwören
schwören
82,593 corpus weight
- Sensor
Sensor
82,592 corpus weight
- shorts
shorts
82,591 corpus weight
- Skizze
Skizze
82,589 corpus weight
What this shows „Sensor“ 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 | Sensor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛnzoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Sensor“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Sensor (IPA [ˈzɛnzoːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,409 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 Sensor, with forms such as "esnsor", "sennsor", and "senosr". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "sponsor", "Sensoren", "sens", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Sensor, spelled S-E-N-S-O-R.
Definition
- 1technischer Fühler
- 2auf Berührung reagierender Schalter
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sensor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sensoren lassen sich in die Gruppe der passiven und in die Gruppe der aktiven Sensoren einteilen, je nachdem, ob der Sensor die Energie zur Weitergabe der Messung aus der Änderung der Messgröße selbst bezieht, oder auf eine fremde Energiequelle angewiesen ist.
„Sie sind mit einer ganzen Reihe von Sensoren ausgestattet, die nicht nur das Herumwälzen sondern auch die Atemfrequenz des Dahinschlummernden aufzeichnen.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnsor
- sennsor
- senosr
- sensorr
- sensro
- senssor
- sesnor
- snesor
- ssensor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sensor - 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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sensor", 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).