Skandal
[skanˈdaːl]
The verdict
“Skandal” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,557. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,557
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ereignis, das für Aufsehen und Wirbel sorgt und auf Ablehnung stößt
Corpus desk
Index DE-skandal · Skandal · German
Skandal · rank #4,557 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,557
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sieh
Nearest frequency peer: sieh (-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 „Skandal“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Seehofer
Seehofer
95,447 corpus weight
- SG
SG
95,446 corpus weight
- sieh
sieh
95,445 corpus weight
- Skandal
Skandal
95,444 corpus weight
- SMS
SMS
95,443 corpus weight
- sozusagen
sozusagen
95,442 corpus weight
What this shows „Skandal“ 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 | Skandal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [skanˈdaːl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Skandal“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Skandal (IPA [skanˈdaːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,557 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ereignis, das für Aufsehen und Wirbel sorgt und auf Ablehnung stößt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Skandal, with forms such as "ksandal", "sakndal", and "skadnal". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Spandau", "Stendal", "Skandale", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Skandal, spelled S-K-A-N-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Ereignis, das für Aufsehen und Wirbel sorgt und auf Ablehnung stößt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Skandal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der kürzlich aufgedeckte Skandal um veruntreute Gelder zieht weite Kreise.
„An diesem Nachmittag vor Ostern muss er all das, was nun geschieht, schon geahnt haben: eine öffentliche Scheidung, Bekenntnisse anderer Frauen, mit denen er eine Affäre gehabt haben soll, die Schlagzeilen der Boulevardpresse, die schon seit Jahren auf einen solchen Skandal wartet.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ksandal
- sakndal
- skadnal
- skanadl
- skandall
- skanddal
- skandla
- skanndal
- skkandal
- sknadal
- sskandal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Skandal - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Skandal", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).