Spanien
[ˈʃpaːni̯ən]
The verdict
“Spanien” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,824
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Staat in Südwesteuropa
Corpus desk
Index DE-spanien · Spanien · German
Spanien · rank #1,824 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,824
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sowieso
Nearest frequency peer: sowieso (-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 „Spanien“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- seitdem
seitdem
98,180 corpus weight
- sogenannten
sogenannten
98,179 corpus weight
- sowieso
sowieso
98,178 corpus weight
- Spanien
Spanien
98,177 corpus weight
- spielte
spielte
98,176 corpus weight
- standen
standen
98,175 corpus weight
What this shows „Spanien“ 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 | Spanien |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpaːni̯ən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Spanien“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Spanien (IPA [ˈʃpaːni̯ən]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,824 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Staat in Südwesteuropa".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Spanien, with forms such as "psanien", "sapnien", and "spainen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sparen", "Spaten", "spanne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Spanien, spelled S-P-A-N-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Staat in Südwesteuropa
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Spanien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Spaniens Himmel breitet seine Sterne // über unsre Schützengräben aus. // Und der Morgen grüßt schon aus der Ferne, // bald geht es zu neuem Kampf hinaus.“
„Zwar hat die Internationalisierung der Lebensstile auch Spanien voll erfaßt, doch die ungebrochene Existenz des baskischen, katalanischen oder galizischen Nationalismus, die sich auf zum Teil antike, in jedem Falle aber auf mittelalterliche Ursprünge zurückführen lassen, belegen die Persistenz lokaler und regionaler Identitäten …“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psanien
- sapnien
- spainen
- spanein
- spanienn
- spanine
- spannien
- spnaien
- sppanien
- sspanien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Spanien - 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 "Spanien", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).