silicon
[ˈsɪlɪkən]
The verdict
“silicon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,060
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Silizium
Corpus desk
Index DE-silicon · silicon · German
silicon · rank #20,060 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,060
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sicherheitsrat
Nearest frequency peer: Sicherheitsrat (-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 „silicon“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- separaten
separaten
79,944 corpus weight
- seriösen
seriösen
79,943 corpus weight
- Sicherheits…
Sicherheitsrat
79,942 corpus weight
- silicon
silicon
79,941 corpus weight
- Spiritualit…
Spiritualität
79,940 corpus weight
- Spätsommer
Spätsommer
79,939 corpus weight
What this shows „silicon“ 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 | silicon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsɪlɪkən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „silicon“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around silicon (IPA [ˈsɪlɪkən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,060 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Silizium".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for silicon, with forms such as "islicon", "siilcon", and "silcion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Silikon", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 silicon, spelled S-I-L-I-C-O-N.
Definition
- 1Silizium
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islicon
- siilcon
- silcion
- siliccon
- silicno
- siliconn
- siliocn
- sillicon
- sliicon
- ssilicon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silicon - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "silicon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).