Spitze
[ˈʃpɪt͡sə]
The verdict
“Spitze” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,570. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,570
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - der oberste, schmal zulaufende Teil eines Gegenstandes oder einer Formation
Corpus desk
Index DE-spitze · Spitze · German
Spitze · rank #1,570 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,570
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spiegel
Nearest frequency peer: Spiegel (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Spitze”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Rat
Rat
98,434 corpus weight
- reichen
reichen
98,433 corpus weight
- Spiegel
Spiegel
98,432 corpus weight
- Spitze
Spitze
98,431 corpus weight
- Star
Star
98,430 corpus weight
- Strassen
Strassen
98,429 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Spitze” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Spitze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɪt͡sə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Spitze” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Spitze (IPA [ˈʃpɪt͡sə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,570 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 Spitze, with forms such as "psitze", "siptze", and "spitez". 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, "Suite", "Stütze", "spitzt", 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 Spitze, spelled S-P-I-T-Z-E.
Definition
- 1der oberste, schmal zulaufende Teil eines Gegenstandes oder einer Formation
- 2der höchste Punkt eines Berges
- 3extreme, nicht übertreffbare Ausprägung
- 4eine Art textilen Gewebes
- 5provokative, manchmal kritisch-ironische Anmerkung oder Äußerung zum Verhalten einer Person oder zu einem Sachverhalt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Spitze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Metallstück hat sehr scharfe Spitzen.
„An Waffen besitzen sie sechs Fuß lange Bogen aus Zedernholz, die an einem Ende mit einer kurzen eisernen Spitze versehen sind und auch als Speere verwendet werden können; die Pfeile haben eiserne, steinerne oder knöcherne Widerhaken.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psitze
- siptze
- spitez
- spittze
- spitzze
- spizte
- sppitze
- sptize
- sspitze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Spitze - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Spitze", 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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.