sit
[ˈsid̥]
The verdict
“sit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,040) as an unknown. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,040
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Neutrum Singular des Possessivpronomens sin
Corpus desk
Index DE-sit · sit · German
sit · rank #19,040 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,040
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sinnvolles
Nearest frequency peer: sinnvolles (-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 „sit“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- sensible
sensible
80,964 corpus weight
- sinnvollen
sinnvollen
80,963 corpus weight
- sinnvolles
sinnvolles
80,962 corpus weight
- sit
sit
80,961 corpus weight
- spannen
spannen
80,959 corpus weight
- spektakulär…
spektakulären
80,958 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „sit“ 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 | sit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ˈsid̥] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sit“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sit is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anunknown pronounced [ˈsid̥]. Frequency #19,040 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Neutrum Singular des Possessivpronomens sin".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sit in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is sit, spelled S-I-T.
Definition
- 1Neutrum Singular des Possessivpronomens sin
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).