Springer
[ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ]
The verdict
“Springer” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,116
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die (besonders im Sport) einen Sprung ausführt
Corpus desk
Index DE-springer · Springer · German
Springer · rank #5,116 · 13 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,116
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH seltener
Nearest frequency peer: seltener (-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 „Springer“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schicht
Schicht
94,888 corpus weight
- schmecken
schmecken
94,887 corpus weight
- seltener
seltener
94,886 corpus weight
- Springer
Springer
94,885 corpus weight
- Sprung
Sprung
94,884 corpus weight
- Supermarkt
Supermarkt
94,883 corpus weight
What this shows „Springer“ 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 | Springer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Springer“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Springer (IPA [ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,116 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Springer, with forms such as "psringer", "spirnger", and "sppringer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "springt", "Sprünge", "springs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Springer, spelled S-P-R-I-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die (besonders im Sport) einen Sprung ausführt
- 2Spielfigur im Schach
- 3flexible Einsatzkraft in Unternehmen, Schulen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Springer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Springer kam gut vom Schanzentisch weg.
Der Springer zieht von g1 nach f3.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psringer
- spirnger
- sppringer
- sprigner
- sprinegr
- springerr
- springger
- springre
- sprinnger
- sprniger
- sprringer
- srpinger
- sspringer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Springer - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Springer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).