sta
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The verdict
“sta” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,707) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,707
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs star (unabhängig von Person und Numerus)
Corpus desk
Index DE-sta · sta · German
sta · rank #18,707 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,707
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Staatsregieru…
Nearest frequency peer: Staatsregierung (+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 neighbours of confusable “sta”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Spitzenreit…
Spitzenreiter
81,297 corpus weight
- Sprit
Sprit
81,296 corpus weight
- sta
sta
81,294 corpus weight
- Staatsregie…
Staatsregierung
81,293 corpus weight
- stabilisiert
stabilisiert
81,292 corpus weight
- starre
starre
81,291 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “sta” against nearest ranked German headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | sta |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “sta” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sta is neighbouring look-alikes ("SV", "SZ", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced […]. Frequency #18,707 among 8,027 “S” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
sta has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SV", "SZ", "SW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is sta, spelled S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs star (unabhängig von Person und Numerus)
- 2Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs star (unabhängig von Person und Numerus)
- 3Suchergebnisse in der Interlingua-Wikipedia für „sta“
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 "sta", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).