Spesen
[ˈʃpeːzn̩]
The verdict
“Spesen” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,028. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,028
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kosten, die in Ausübung einer beruflichen oder geschäftlichen Tätigkeit entstanden sind
Corpus desk
Index DE-spesen · Spesen · German
Spesen · rank #36,028 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,028
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH spaziert
Nearest frequency peer: spaziert (-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 „Spesen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sonnenbrill…
Sonnenbrillen
63,977 corpus weight
- Spain
Spain
63,975 corpus weight
- spaziert
spaziert
63,974 corpus weight
- Spesen
Spesen
63,973 corpus weight
- spielbar
spielbar
63,972 corpus weight
- Spirituosen
Spirituosen
63,971 corpus weight
What this shows „Spesen“ 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 | Spesen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpeːzn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Spesen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Spesen (IPA [ˈʃpeːzn̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,028 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Kosten, die in Ausübung einer beruflichen oder geschäftlichen Tätigkeit entstanden sind".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Spesen, with forms such as "psesen", "sepsen", and "speesn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stehen", "spüren", "Szenen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Spesen, spelled S-P-E-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Kosten, die in Ausübung einer beruflichen oder geschäftlichen Tätigkeit entstanden sind
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Spesen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei der Dienstreise waren erhebliche Spesen entstanden, die dem Arbeitnehmer vom Arbeitgeber erstattet wurden.
Der Auftraggeber hat alle Spesen, die bei diesen Geschäft angefallen sind, vollständig übernommen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psesen
- sepsen
- speesn
- spesenn
- spesne
- spessen
- sppesen
- spseen
- sspesen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Spesen - 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 "Spesen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).