spielst

[ʃpiːlst]

/[ʃpiːlst]/ verb

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The verdict

“spielst” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,981. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,981
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spielen

Corpus desk

Index DE-spielst · spielst · German

spielst · rank #9,981 · 11 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,981
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sponsoren

Nearest frequency peer: Sponsoren (+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 „spielst“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „spielst“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

spielst vs spies
71% similar
spielst vs spielt
86% similar
spielst vs spielte
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for spielst
PropertyValue
Headwordspielst
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ʃpiːlst]
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,981
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „spielst“

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).spielstliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Sponsoren“ (#9,982), „sozialistische“ (#9,979), „Sr“ (#9,983). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „spielst“ bei #9,981. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around spielst (IPA [ʃpiːlst]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,981 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spielen".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for spielst, with forms such as "psielst", "sipelst", and "speilst". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "spies", "spielt", "spielte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is spielst, spelled S-P-I-E-L-S-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spielen

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • psielst
  • sipelst
  • speilst
  • spiellst
  • spielsst
  • spielstt
  • spielts
  • spieslt
  • spilest
  • sppielst
  • sspielst

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spielst - 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.

psielst2sipelst2speilst2spiellst1spielsst1spielstt1spielts2spieslt2
Edit distance from "spielst"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "spielst"?
"spielst" is spelled S-P-I-E-L-S-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃpiːlst].
What does "spielst" mean?
As a verb, "spielst" means: 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spielen
What words are commonly confused with "spielst"?
"spielst" is commonly confused with "spies", "spielt", "spielte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "spielst"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "spielst" is [ʃpiːlst]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "spielst" come from?
"spielst" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spielst", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Vorhang11 variantsMerkmal11 variantsAbgrund11 variantsInvasion11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list