species
[ˈspiːʃiːz]
The verdict
“species” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,433. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,433
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Spezies, die Art
Corpus desk
Index DE-species · species · German
species · rank #21,433 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,433
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH spaltet
Nearest frequency peer: spaltet (-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 „species“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- sonstiger
sonstiger
78,571 corpus weight
- Sozialarbei…
Sozialarbeiter
78,570 corpus weight
- spaltet
spaltet
78,569 corpus weight
- species
species
78,568 corpus weight
- Speisekarte
Speisekarte
78,567 corpus weight
- Spielers
Spielers
78,566 corpus weight
What this shows „species“ 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 | species |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈspiːʃiːz] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „species“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around species (IPA [ˈspiːʃiːz]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,433 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "die Spezies, die Art".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for species, with forms such as "psecies", "sepcies", and "spceies". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "spies", "Spezies", "series", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is species, spelled S-P-E-C-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1die Spezies, die Art
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psecies
- sepcies
- spceies
- speccies
- speceis
- speciess
- specise
- speices
- sppecies
- sspecies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of species - 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 "species", 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).