Spin
[spɪn]
The verdict
“Spin” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,675. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,675
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eigendrehimpuls von Elementarteilchen
Corpus desk
Index DE-spin · Spin · German
Spin · rank #14,675 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,675
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sounds
Nearest frequency peer: sounds (-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 „Spin“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Slalom
Slalom
85,329 corpus weight
- sortieren
sortieren
85,328 corpus weight
- sounds
sounds
85,327 corpus weight
- Spin
Spin
85,326 corpus weight
- stan
stan
85,325 corpus weight
- starteten
starteten
85,324 corpus weight
What this shows „Spin“ 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 | Spin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [spɪn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Spin“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Spin (IPA [spɪn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,675 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Spin, with forms such as "psin", "sipn", and "spinn". 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, "SPÖ", "Sun", "Sui", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Spin, spelled S-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Eigendrehimpuls von Elementarteilchen
- 2Drehimpuls, der einem Ball beim Schlag oder Stoß durch Anschneiden gegeben wird, so dass der Ball nach dem Auftreffen in einem anderen Winkel oder in eine andere Richtung wegspringt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Spin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Spin ist der jedem Teilchen innewohnende Eigendrehimpuls. Die beiden möglichen Zustände für den Spin eines Elektrons m_s=+ tfrac 1 2 und m_s=- tfrac 1 2 werden mit up und down bezeichnet.“
Timo spielt seine Angaben mit so viel Spin, dass meine Rückgaben entweder weit über die Tischtennisplatte hinausgehen oder im Netz landen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psin
- sipn
- spinn
- spni
- sppin
- sspin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Spin - 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 "Spin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).