spider
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The verdict
“spider” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,139. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,139
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spinne
Corpus desk
Index DE-spider · spider · German
spider · rank #17,139 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,139
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spezialitäten
Nearest frequency peer: Spezialitäten (-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 „spider“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- spare
spare
82,865 corpus weight
- Speicherung
Speicherung
82,864 corpus weight
- Spezialität…
Spezialitäten
82,863 corpus weight
- spider
spider
82,862 corpus weight
- Spielerinnen
Spielerinnen
82,861 corpus weight
- Sportplatz
Sportplatz
82,860 corpus weight
What this shows „spider“ 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 | spider |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „spider“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around spider (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,139 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for spider, with forms such as "psider", "sipder", and "spdier". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Spiel", "Stier", "spies", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is spider, spelled S-P-I-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Spinne
- 2Dornsteghalter
- 3Kreuzschlüssel
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psider
- sipder
- spdier
- spidder
- spiderr
- spidre
- spiedr
- sppider
- sspider
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spider - 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 "spider", 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).