spontan
[ʃpɔnˈtaːn]
The verdict
“spontan” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #3,920. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,920
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aus eigenem inneren Antrieb, ohne Planung, ohne lange Überlegung
Corpus desk
Index DE-spontan · spontan · German
spontan · rank #3,920 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,920
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH solches
Nearest frequency peer: solches (-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 „spontan“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Reaktionen
Reaktionen
96,084 corpus weight
- seitens
seitens
96,083 corpus weight
- solches
solches
96,082 corpus weight
- spontan
spontan
96,081 corpus weight
- stars
stars
96,080 corpus weight
- Szenen
Szenen
96,079 corpus weight
What this shows „spontan“ 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 | spontan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʃpɔnˈtaːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „spontan“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around spontan (IPA [ʃpɔnˈtaːn]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,920 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for spontan, with forms such as "psontan", "sopntan", and "spnotan". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "spontane", "spontanen", "spontaner", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 spontan, spelled S-P-O-N-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1aus eigenem inneren Antrieb, ohne Planung, ohne lange Überlegung
- 2ohne äußere Anregung, ohne äußeren Einfluss, aus sich selbst heraus
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spontan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Am letzten Urlaubstag entschlossen sie sich spontan, noch eine Woche länger zu bleiben.
„Was tut nun Lourdes mit den Massen? Es versetzt zunächst die fernen Kranken durch seine Reputation, die künstlich genährt und gesteigert wird, in sanften Schwindel. Die Wallfahrten sind ja nicht spontan, sondern sorgfältig organisiert, ihre Beteiligung ist häufig unter mehr oder minder starker Beeinflussung erfolgt.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psontan
- sopntan
- spnotan
- sponatn
- sponntan
- spontann
- spontna
- sponttan
- spotnan
- sppontan
- sspontan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spontan - 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 "spontan", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).