sprachlos
[ˈʃpʁaːxloːs]
The verdict
“sprachlos” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,417
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem fehlen die Worte, einen Sachverhalt oder ein Ereignis zu kommentieren oder sich dazu zu stellen, meist aus Überraschung
Corpus desk
Index DE-sprachlos · sprachlos · German
sprachlos · rank #17,417 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,417
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spitzenkandid…
Nearest frequency peer: Spitzenkandidat (-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 “sprachlos”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Sommerzeit
Sommerzeit
82,587 corpus weight
- spezialisie…
spezialisierte
82,586 corpus weight
- Spitzenkand…
Spitzenkandidat
82,585 corpus weight
- sprachlos
sprachlos
82,584 corpus weight
- stabiler
stabiler
82,583 corpus weight
- Steg
Steg
82,582 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sprachlos” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sprachlos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃpʁaːxloːs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “sprachlos” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around sprachlos (IPA [ˈʃpʁaːxloːs]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,417 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for sprachlos, with forms such as "psrachlos", "sparchlos", and "spprachlos". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is sprachlos, spelled S-P-R-A-C-H-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1jemandem fehlen die Worte, einen Sachverhalt oder ein Ereignis zu kommentieren oder sich dazu zu stellen, meist aus Überraschung
- 2ohne gesprochene Worte; stumm
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sprachlos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Kommerzienrat blieb wirklich im ersten Augenblick sprachlos vor Schreck, denn der Gedanke, trotz aller erlittenen Unbill, war ihm noch zu neu, sich mitten in der Welt, wie er ging und stand und allein auf sich selber angewiesen zu wissen.“
„Auch die Inuit sind sprachlos, wenn sie zum ersten Mal einen Wal sehen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psrachlos
- sparchlos
- spprachlos
- spracchlos
- sprachhlos
- sprachllos
- sprachloss
- sprachlso
- sprachols
- spraclhos
- sprahclos
- sprcahlos
- sprrachlos
- srpachlos
- ssprachlos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sprachlos - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).
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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.