Sparkasse
[ˈʃpaːɐ̯ˌkasə]
The verdict
“Sparkasse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,005
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kreditinstitut, fast immer in öffentlicher Trägerschaft (Kommune, Landkreis…)
Corpus desk
Index DE-sparkasse · Sparkasse · German
Sparkasse · rank #6,005 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #6,005
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sohnes
Nearest frequency peer: Sohnes (-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 „Sparkasse“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schickte
schickte
93,999 corpus weight
- Schwäche
Schwäche
93,998 corpus weight
- Sohnes
Sohnes
93,997 corpus weight
- Sparkasse
Sparkasse
93,996 corpus weight
- starkes
starkes
93,995 corpus weight
- Straftaten
Straftaten
93,994 corpus weight
What this shows „Sparkasse“ 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 | Sparkasse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpaːɐ̯ˌkasə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Sparkasse“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Sparkasse (IPA [ˈʃpaːɐ̯ˌkasə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,005 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Kreditinstitut, fast immer in öffentlicher Trägerschaft (Kommune, Landkreis…)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sparkasse, with forms such as "psarkasse", "saprkasse", and "spakrasse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Sparkassen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Sparkasse, spelled S-P-A-R-K-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Kreditinstitut, fast immer in öffentlicher Trägerschaft (Kommune, Landkreis…)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sparkasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die 54 baden-württembergischen Sparkassen haben das erste Halbjahr 2009 trotz des schwierigen Umfelds gut bewältigt.“
„In Deutschland habe sich das Dreisäulenmodell aus Privatbanken, Kreditgenossenschaften und Sparkassen als robust erwiesen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psarkasse
- saprkasse
- spakrasse
- sparaksse
- sparkase
- sparkases
- sparkaße
- sparkkasse
- sparksase
- sparrkasse
- spparkasse
- sprakasse
- ssparkasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sparkasse - 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 "Sparkasse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).