sin
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The verdict
“sin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,171) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,171
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sinus
Corpus desk
Index DE-sin · sin · German
sin · rank #10,171 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,171
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH selbständig
Nearest frequency peer: selbständig (-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 „sin“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Schüssel
Schüssel
89,833 corpus weight
- schütteln
schütteln
89,832 corpus weight
- selbständig
selbständig
89,831 corpus weight
- sin
sin
89,830 corpus weight
- society
society
89,829 corpus weight
- some
some
89,828 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „sin“ 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 | sin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sin“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sin is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #10,171 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Sinus".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sin, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is sin, spelled S-I-N.
Definition
- 1Sinus
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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