Staatssekretär
[ˈʃtaːt͡szekʁeˌtɛːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Staatssekretär” has 21 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,786
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - der höchste Beamte in einem Ministerium
Corpus desk
Index DE-staatssekretar · Staatssekretär · German
Staatssekretär · rank #8,786 · 21 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #8,786
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 107,600
- PHOTO-FINISH Spezialisten
Nearest frequency peer: Spezialisten (-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 “Staatssekretär”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Simone
Simone
91,218 corpus weight
- speichern
speichern
91,217 corpus weight
- Spezialisten
Spezialisten
91,216 corpus weight
- Staatssekre…
Staatssekretär
91,215 corpus weight
- streben
streben
91,214 corpus weight
- Streik
Streik
91,213 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Staatssekretär” 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 | Staatssekretär |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaːt͡szekʁeˌtɛːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #8,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Staatssekretär” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around Staatssekretär (IPA [ˈʃtaːt͡szekʁeˌtɛːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,786 among 107,600 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for Staatssekretär, with forms such as "satatssekretär", "sstaatssekretär", and "staastsekretär". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Staatssekretärin", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Staatssekretär, spelled S-T-A-A-T-S-S-E-K-R-E-T-Ä-R.
Definition
- 1der höchste Beamte in einem Ministerium
- 2Bundestagsmitglied, das den Minister bei seiner Arbeit unterstützt
- 3Vom Bundespräsidenten ernannte Person, die den Minister bei seiner Arbeit unterstützt
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satatssekretär
- sstaatssekretär
- staastsekretär
- staatsekretär
- staatseskretär
- staatssekertär
- staatssekkretär
- staatssekreträ
- staatssekrettär
- staatssekretärr
- staatssekreätr
- staatssekrretär
- staatssekrteär
- staatsserketär
- staatsskeretär
- staattssekretär
- staatßekretär
- statassekretär
- statssekretär
- sttaatssekretär
- tsaatssekretär
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Staatssekretär - 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 May 6, 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 "Staatssekretär", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 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.