speisen
[ˈʃpaɪ̯zn̩]
The verdict
“speisen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,989. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,989
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - essen, Nahrung zu sich nehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-speisen · speisen · German
speisen · rank #7,989 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,989
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schmid
Nearest frequency peer: Schmid (-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 „speisen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- SAP
SAP
92,015 corpus weight
- Schiller
Schiller
92,014 corpus weight
- Schmid
Schmid
92,013 corpus weight
- speisen
speisen
92,012 corpus weight
- sports
sports
92,011 corpus weight
- Steinen
Steinen
92,010 corpus weight
What this shows „speisen“ 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 | speisen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃpaɪ̯zn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „speisen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around speisen (IPA [ˈʃpaɪ̯zn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,989 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for speisen, with forms such as "pseisen", "sepisen", and "speiesn". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "speist", "Spesen", "steigen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is speisen, spelled S-P-E-I-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1essen, Nahrung zu sich nehmen
- 2mit Nahrung versorgen, verpflegen
- 3mit etwas versorgen, etwas zuführen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how speisen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir speisten im Extrazimmer.
Das Kloster speiste die Armen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pseisen
- sepisen
- speiesn
- speisenn
- speisne
- speissen
- spesien
- spiesen
- sppeisen
- sspeisen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of speisen - 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 "speisen", 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).