shit
[ʃɪt]
The verdict
“shit” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,592. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,592
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - den Darm entleeren
Corpus desk
Index DE-shit · shit · German
shit · rank #6,592 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,592
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sexuellen
Nearest frequency peer: sexuellen (-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 „shit“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schwierigen
schwierigen
93,412 corpus weight
- Schwule
Schwule
93,411 corpus weight
- sexuellen
sexuellen
93,410 corpus weight
- shit
shit
93,409 corpus weight
- sinnlos
sinnlos
93,408 corpus weight
- sorgfältig
sorgfältig
93,407 corpus weight
What this shows „shit“ 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 | shit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃɪt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „shit“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around shit (IPA [ʃɪt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,592 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "den Darm entleeren".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for shit, with forms such as "hsit", "shhit", and "shitt". 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, "sie", "Sir", "Ski", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is shit, spelled S-H-I-T.
Definition
- 1den Darm entleeren
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsit
- shhit
- shitt
- shti
- siht
- sshit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shit - 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 "shit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).