spinnen
[ˈʃpɪnən]
The verdict
“spinnen” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,368
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einen Faden herstellen, Erstellung von Garn aus einzelnen Fasern
Corpus desk
Index DE-spinnen · spinnen · German
spinnen · rank #10,368 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,368
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spielraum
Nearest frequency peer: Spielraum (-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 „spinnen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sophia
Sophia
89,635 corpus weight
- Spielraum
Spielraum
89,634 corpus weight
- spinnen
spinnen
89,633 corpus weight
- spring
spring
89,632 corpus weight
- Stadtverwal…
Stadtverwaltung
89,631 corpus weight
- Streich
Streich
89,630 corpus weight
What this shows „spinnen“ 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 | spinnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɪnən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „spinnen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around spinnen (IPA [ˈʃpɪnən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,368 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for spinnen, with forms such as "psinnen", "sipnnen", and "spinen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "spinnt", "Spione", "Spitzen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 spinnen, spelled S-P-I-N-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1einen Faden herstellen, Erstellung von Garn aus einzelnen Fasern
- 2mit Hilfe von Drüsen einen Faden herstellen
- 3erfundene Dinge erzählen, als wären sie wahr
- 4sich ungewöhnlich verhalten
- 5ein Geräusch wie ein Spinnrad machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spinnen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich spinne einen Faden mit dem Spinnrad.
Die Raupe spinnt sich einen Kokon.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psinnen
- sipnnen
- spinen
- spinenn
- spinnenn
- spinnne
- spninen
- sppinnen
- sspinnen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spinnen - 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 "spinnen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).