souvenir
[suv.niʁ]
The verdict
“souvenir” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #34,374. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,374
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Fähigkeit, vergangene Informationen zu behalten und wieder aufzurufen
Corpus desk
Index DE-souvenir · souvenir · German
souvenir · rank #34,374 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,374
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sonnenfinster…
Nearest frequency peer: Sonnenfinsternis (-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 „souvenir“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sonderausga…
Sonderausgabe
65,630 corpus weight
- Sonderstell…
Sonderstellung
65,629 corpus weight
- Sonnenfinst…
Sonnenfinsternis
65,628 corpus weight
- souvenir
souvenir
65,627 corpus weight
- Spieltage
Spieltage
65,625 corpus weight
- spitzt
spitzt
65,624 corpus weight
What this shows „souvenir“ 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 | souvenir |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [suv.niʁ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „souvenir“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around souvenir (IPA [suv.niʁ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,374 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for souvenir, with forms such as "osuvenir", "souevnir", and "souveinr". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Souvenirs", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is souvenir, spelled S-O-U-V-E-N-I-R.
Definition
- 1die Fähigkeit, vergangene Informationen zu behalten und wieder aufzurufen
- 2ein bestimmter Gedanke, der im Gedächtnis verblieben ist; Erinnerung
- 3ein kleiner Gegenstand, der Erinnerungen an ein bestimmtes Ereignis oder eine bestimmte Person hervorrufen soll; Andenken
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuvenir
- souevnir
- souveinr
- souvenirr
- souvennir
- souvenri
- souvneir
- souvvenir
- sovuenir
- ssouvenir
- suovenir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of souvenir - 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 "souvenir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).