son
[zoːn]
The verdict
“son” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,881) as a determiner. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,881
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - umgangssprachlich:
Corpus desk
Index DE-son · son · German
son · rank #5,881 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,881
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Ski
Nearest frequency peer: Ski (-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 „son“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Sehnsucht
Sehnsucht
94,123 corpus weight
- senken
senken
94,122 corpus weight
- Ski
Ski
94,121 corpus weight
- son
son
94,120 corpus weight
- sorgte
sorgte
94,119 corpus weight
- starben
starben
94,118 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „son“ 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 | son |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | [zoːn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „son“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for son is neighbouring look-alikes ("SV", "SS", …), not just typos; it is adeterminer pronounced [zoːn]. Frequency #5,881 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for son, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SV", "SS", "SP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is son, spelled S-O-N.
Definition
- 1umgangssprachlich:
- 2auf eine aus dem Kontext ersichtliche Eigenschaft hinweisend
- 3auf ein besonderes Ausmaß hinweisend
- 4unbestimmter Artikel
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how son appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit sonem Gehabe kommst du bei mir nicht weiter.
„Was kann ich dafür, daß du in som Haus wohnst?“
This word in other languages
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
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