silva
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The verdict
“silva” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,723. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,723
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wald, Waldung, Forst
Corpus desk
Index DE-silva · silva · German
silva · rank #17,723 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,723
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sibirien
Nearest frequency peer: Sibirien (-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 „silva“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- SEC
SEC
82,281 corpus weight
- selig
selig
82,280 corpus weight
- Sibirien
Sibirien
82,279 corpus weight
- silva
silva
82,278 corpus weight
- Simpson
Simpson
82,277 corpus weight
- Sonntagabend
Sonntagabend
82,276 corpus weight
What this shows „silva“ 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 | silva |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „silva“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around silva (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,723 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for silva, with forms such as "islva", "silav", and "sillva". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sola", "silver", "Sylvia", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is silva, spelled S-I-L-V-A.
Definition
- 1Wald, Waldung, Forst
- 2Park
- 3Baum, Strauch
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how silva appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„praedium quod primum siet, si me rogabis, sic dicam: de omnibus agris optimoque loco iugera agri centum, vinea est prima, vel si vino multo est; secundo loco hortus irriguus; tertio salictum; quarto oletum; quinto pratum; sexto campus frumentarius; septimo silva caedua; octavo arbustum; nono glandaria silva.“ (Cato agr. 1,7)
„nos patriae finis et dulica linquimus arva: / nos patriam fugimus; tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra / formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas.“ (Verg. ecl. 1,3–5)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islva
- silav
- sillva
- silvva
- sivla
- sliva
- ssilva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silva - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "silva", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).