Souverän
[ˌzuveˈʁɛːn]
The verdict
“Souverän” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,455. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,455
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Herrscher, der uneingeschränkte Macht über ein Land hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-souveran · Souverän · German
Souverän · rank #8,455 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,455
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH solide
Nearest frequency peer: solide (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Souverän”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Schnauze
Schnauze
91,549 corpus weight
- Selbstbewus…
Selbstbewusstsein
91,548 corpus weight
- solide
solide
91,547 corpus weight
- Souverän
Souverän
91,546 corpus weight
- spiegelt
spiegelt
91,545 corpus weight
- Stall
Stall
91,544 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Souverän” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Souverän |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌzuveˈʁɛːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Souverän” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Souverän (IPA [ˌzuveˈʁɛːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,455 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 Souverän, with forms such as "osuverän", "souevrän", and "souvernä". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Souveräne", "Souveränen", "souveräner", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Souverän, spelled S-O-U-V-E-R-Ä-N.
Definition
- 1Herrscher, der uneingeschränkte Macht über ein Land hat
- 2Gesamtheit der eidgenössischen, kantonalen oder kommunalen Stimmbürger
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Souverän appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Gerade aus diesem Grund ist der Souverän aber der einzige, der hinsichtlich seiner Rechtsposition uneingeschränkt aus dem Staatsgründungsakt hervorgeht.“
„Der Souverän habe sich dabei gegen Isolationismus und für Bilateralismus ausgesprochen. Der Entscheid habe nichts mit dem EU-Beitritt zu tun.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osuverän
- souevrän
- souvernä
- souverrän
- souveränn
- souveärn
- souvreän
- souvverän
- sovuerän
- ssouverän
- suoverän
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Souverän - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Souverän", 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).
What to do next
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- "Souverän" maps to 3 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Souveräne". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #8,455 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.