Spital
[ʃpiˈtaːl]
The verdict
“Spital” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,487. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,487
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gebäude oder Gebäudekomplex, in dem Kranke behandelt oder beherbergt werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-spital · Spital · German
Spital · rank #13,487 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,487
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spionage
Nearest frequency peer: Spionage (-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 „Spital“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sizilien
Sizilien
86,517 corpus weight
- Spielfeld
Spielfeld
86,516 corpus weight
- Spionage
Spionage
86,515 corpus weight
- Spital
Spital
86,514 corpus weight
- spoiler
spoiler
86,513 corpus weight
- stammte
stammte
86,512 corpus weight
What this shows „Spital“ 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 | Spital |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃpiˈtaːl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Spital“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Spital (IPA [ʃpiˈtaːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,487 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gebäude oder Gebäudekomplex, in dem Kranke behandelt oder beherbergt werden".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Spital, with forms such as "psital", "siptal", and "spiatl". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "spitz", "Spitze", "spitzt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Spital, spelled S-P-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Gebäude oder Gebäudekomplex, in dem Kranke behandelt oder beherbergt werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Spital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Niemand liegt gerne im Spital.
„So blieb ich noch zu einem guten Gabelfrühstück im Spital und fuhr dann mit dem Sanitätsomnibus auf den Nordwestbahnhof.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psital
- siptal
- spiatl
- spitall
- spitla
- spittal
- sppital
- sptial
- sspital
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Spital - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Spital", 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).