Slang
[slɛŋ]
The verdict
“Slang” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,228. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,228
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - saloppe, zum Teil fehlerhafte und derbe Umgangssprache
Corpus desk
Index DE-slang · Slang · German
Slang · rank #44,228 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,228
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Skat
Nearest frequency peer: Skat (-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 „Slang“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Silo
Silo
55,776 corpus weight
- Sixpack
Sixpack
55,775 corpus weight
- Skat
Skat
55,774 corpus weight
- Slang
Slang
55,773 corpus weight
- slowakische
slowakische
55,771 corpus weight
- Smaragd
Smaragd
55,770 corpus weight
What this shows „Slang“ 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 | Slang |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [slɛŋ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Slang“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Slang (IPA [slɛŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,228 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Slang, with forms such as "lsang", "salng", and "slagn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Song", "stan", "sung", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Slang, spelled S-L-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1saloppe, zum Teil fehlerhafte und derbe Umgangssprache
- 2Ausdrucksweise einer bestimmten abgegrenzten Menschengruppe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Slang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In seinem englischen Slang hat er seinen Frust ausgedrückt.
„Seine Stimme war scharf und trocken, aber zwischendurch ließ sich eine schwache Spur von texanischem Slang entdecken wie das Wunder einer sprudelnden Quelle in der Wüste.“.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lsang
- salng
- slagn
- slangg
- slanng
- sllang
- slnag
- sslang
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Slang - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Slang", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).