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The verdict
“set” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,995) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,995
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kardinalzahl zwischen sechs und acht
Corpus desk
Index DE-set · set · German
set · rank #3,995 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,995
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH seltsam
Nearest frequency peer: seltsam (-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 “set”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Schülern
Schülern
96,009 corpus weight
- Sekunde
Sekunde
96,008 corpus weight
- seltsam
seltsam
96,007 corpus weight
- set
set
96,006 corpus weight
- Signal
Signal
96,005 corpus weight
- SOG
SOG
96,004 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “set” 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 | set |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “set” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for set is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced […]. Frequency #3,995 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Kardinalzahl zwischen sechs und acht".
set doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is set, spelled S-E-T.
Definition
- 1Kardinalzahl zwischen sechs und acht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how set appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Carles li reis, nostre emperere magnes, / Set anz tuz pleins ad estet en Espaigne:“
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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- "set" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "so". View pair
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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.