Spieler
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#758
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Spieler is aGermannoun. It means: jemand, der in einem Ballsport gegen einen anderen oder eine andere Mannschaft antritt; des Weiteren jemand, der an einem Brett-, Würfel-, Kartenspiel oder einem ähnlichen Gesellschaftsspiel teilnimmt Pronounced [ˈʃpiːlɐ]. It ranks #758 in German word frequency. Often confused with spielt and spiels.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spieler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpiːlɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Spieler is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃpiːlɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #758 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Spieler, with forms such as "psieler", "sipeler", and "speiler". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "spielt", "spiels", "spielte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Spieler, spelled S-P-I-E-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemand, der in einem Ballsport gegen einen anderen oder eine andere Mannschaft antritt; des Weiteren jemand, der an einem Brett-, Würfel-, Kartenspiel oder einem ähnlichen Gesellschaftsspiel teilnimmt
- 2jemand, der an einem Glücksspiel teilnimmt; jemand, der leidenschaftlich um Geld spielt
- 3jemand, der ein Musikinstrument oder Theater spielt
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: psieler,sipeler,speiler,spieelr,spielerr,spieller,spielre,spileer,sppieler,sspieler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Spieler
Misspelling Variants of "Spieler"
Frequency rank: #758 in German
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Nearby German words
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