silent
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The verdict
“silent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,311
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - keine Geräusche, Töne oder Laute sind hörbar
Corpus desk
Index DE-silent · silent · German
silent · rank #25,311 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,311
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH signalisieren
Nearest frequency peer: signalisieren (-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 „silent“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- selbständig…
selbständiger
74,693 corpus weight
- Sieb
Sieb
74,692 corpus weight
- signalisier…
signalisieren
74,691 corpus weight
- silent
silent
74,690 corpus weight
- sitzende
sitzende
74,688 corpus weight
- sonnige
sonnige
74,687 corpus weight
What this shows „silent“ 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 | silent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „silent“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around silent (IPA […]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,311 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "keine Geräusche, Töne oder Laute sind hörbar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for silent, with forms such as "islent", "sielnt", and "silennt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sint", "Stilen", "TO", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is silent, spelled S-I-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1keine Geräusche, Töne oder Laute sind hörbar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islent
- sielnt
- silennt
- silentt
- siletn
- sillent
- silnet
- slient
- ssilent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silent - 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 "silent", 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).