shield
[ʃiːld]
The verdict
“shield” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,063. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,063
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schild, Schirm
Corpus desk
Index DE-shield · shield · German
shield · rank #18,063 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,063
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sessions
Nearest frequency peer: Sessions (-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 „shield“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Screenshots
Screenshots
81,941 corpus weight
- Sequenz
Sequenz
81,940 corpus weight
- Sessions
Sessions
81,939 corpus weight
- shield
shield
81,938 corpus weight
- Silke
Silke
81,937 corpus weight
- slim
slim
81,935 corpus weight
What this shows „shield“ 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 | shield |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃiːld] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „shield“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around shield (IPA [ʃiːld]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,063 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for shield, with forms such as "hsield", "sheild", and "shhield". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Spiel", "Stiel", "Spiele", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is shield, spelled S-H-I-E-L-D.
Definition
- 1Schild, Schirm
- 2Verteidigung, Schutzschild
- 3Blende, Panzer
- 4Abschirmung
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsield
- sheild
- shhield
- shiedl
- shieldd
- shielld
- shiled
- siheld
- sshield
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shield - 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 "shield", 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).