sil
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The verdict
“sil” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,487) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,487
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Küchengerät mit vielen Löschern; Sieb
Corpus desk
Index DE-sil · sil · German
sil · rank #48,487 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,487
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH signieren
Nearest frequency peer: signieren (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „sil“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- she's
she's
51,518 corpus weight
- Sicherungsv…
Sicherungsverwahrung
51,517 corpus weight
- Siegers
Siegers
51,516 corpus weight
- signieren
signieren
51,515 corpus weight
- sil
sil
51,514 corpus weight
- Sire
Sire
51,513 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „sil“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | sil |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sil“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sil is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #48,487 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Küchengerät mit vielen Löschern; Sieb".
Zero misspellings are on record for sil in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is sil, spelled S-I-L.
Definition
- 1Küchengerät mit vielen Löschern; Sieb
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En sil är ett köksredskap som används för att avskilja fasta beståndsdelar från en vätska.
Räck mig silen, är du snäll. Tack.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).