Söldner
[ˈzœldnɐ]
The verdict
“Söldner” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,147. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,147
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gegen Bezahlung angeworbener, zeitlich (und vertraglich) befristet dienender Angehöriger einer aus freiwilligen, zumeist fremdländischen Soldaten bestehenden Truppe
Corpus desk
Index DE-soldner · Söldner · German
Söldner · rank #17,147 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,147
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH systematischen
Nearest frequency peer: systematischen (-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 „Söldner“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Stockwerke
Stockwerke
82,857 corpus weight
- Sylt
Sylt
82,856 corpus weight
- systematisc…
systematischen
82,855 corpus weight
- Söldner
Söldner
82,854 corpus weight
- Talkshow
Talkshow
82,853 corpus weight
- then
then
82,852 corpus weight
What this shows „Söldner“ 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 | Söldner |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzœldnɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Söldner“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Söldner (IPA [ˈzœldnɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,147 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Söldner, with forms such as "slödner", "ssöldner", and "södlner". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sonder", "solider", "Solinger", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Söldner, spelled S-Ö-L-D-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1gegen Bezahlung angeworbener, zeitlich (und vertraglich) befristet dienender Angehöriger einer aus freiwilligen, zumeist fremdländischen Soldaten bestehenden Truppe
- 2in Bayern und Österreich Besitzer einer Sölde, eines kleinen Bauerngutes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Söldner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die französische Armee ist mithin aus den deutschen, schottischen und italienischen Söldnern der freien Kompanien hervorgegangen.“
„5000 Soldaten der ‚New Iraqi Army‘ sollen hier den Krieg lernen. Aber vorsichtshalber werden sie bewacht von 300 kurdischen Peshmerga und 20 internationalen Söldnern im Dienste des Pentagon - darunter Südafrikaner, ein Neuseeländer und die Deutschen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- slödner
- ssöldner
- södlner
- sölddner
- söldenr
- söldnerr
- söldnner
- söldnre
- sölldner
- sölnder
- ösldner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Söldner - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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