Spessart
[ˈʃpɛsaʁt]
The verdict
“Spessart” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,770
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bergland, Mittelgebirge im Mainviereck im Südwesten Deutschlands (in den Bundesländern Bayern und Hessen)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spessart |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɛsaʁt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Spessart” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Spessart (IPA [ˈʃpɛsaʁt]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #25,770 among 107,600 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bergland, Mittelgebirge im Mainviereck im Südwesten Deutschlands (in den Bundesländern Bayern und Hessen)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Spessart, with forms such as "psessart", "sepssart", and "spesart". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Spessart, spelled S-P-E-S-S-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Bergland, Mittelgebirge im Mainviereck im Südwesten Deutschlands (in den Bundesländern Bayern und Hessen)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psessart
- sepssart
- spesart
- spesasrt
- spessarrt
- spessartt
- spessatr
- spessrat
- speßart
- sppessart
- spsesart
- sspessart
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Spessart - 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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Using “Spessart”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-P-E-S-S-A-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.