Sitz
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,177
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Sitz is aGermannoun. It means: ein Platz, der so gestaltet ist, dass sich Personen darauf setzen, sich dort niederlassen können Pronounced [zɪt͡s]. It ranks #2,177 in German word frequency. Often confused with SZ and six.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sitz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zɪt͡s] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sitz is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zɪt͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,177 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sitz, with forms such as "istz", "sitzz", and "sizt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SZ", "six", "sta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Sitz, spelled S-I-T-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein Platz, der so gestaltet ist, dass sich Personen darauf setzen, sich dort niederlassen können
- 2ein bestimmter Ort
- 3ein Ort, an dem sich die Verwaltungszentrale einer Körperschaft, einer Institution befindet beziehungsweise der aktenkundige Registrierungseintrag (oder Ähnliches) gemacht worden ist
- 4ein Ort, den der Gesellschaftsvertrag (einer Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) beziehungsweise die Satzung (einer Aktiengesellschaft) bestimmt, in der Regel der Ort, wo die Gesellschaft einen Betrieb hat oder wo sich die Verwaltung befindet oder die Verwaltung geführt wird.
- 5ein herrschaftliches Anwesen; Ort, an dem man wohnt
- 6ein Mandat in einem Organ
- 7Art und Weise, wie jemand sitzt
- 8Art und Weise, ob/wie etwas passt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: istz,sitzz,sizt,ssitz,stiz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Sitz
Misspelling Variants of "Sitz"
Frequency rank: #2,177 in German
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