staff
[stɑːf]
The verdict
“staff” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,780. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,780
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lehrkörper, Mitarbeiterstab, Personal
Corpus desk
Index DE-staff · staff · German
staff · rank #32,780 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,780
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stadtteils
Nearest frequency peer: Stadtteils (-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 „staff“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Staatshaush…
Staatshaushalt
67,224 corpus weight
- Staatsstrei…
Staatsstreich
67,223 corpus weight
- Stadtteils
Stadtteils
67,222 corpus weight
- staff
staff
67,221 corpus weight
- Stammzellen
Stammzellen
67,220 corpus weight
- stampfen
stampfen
67,219 corpus weight
What this shows „staff“ 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 | staff |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [stɑːf] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „staff“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around staff (IPA [stɑːf]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,780 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for staff, with forms such as "satff", "sstaff", and "staf". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Star", "Stau", "stan", and more, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is staff, spelled S-T-A-F-F.
Definition
- 1Lehrkörper, Mitarbeiterstab, Personal
- 2Stab, Stock
- 3Notenlinie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how staff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The staff is not allowed to answer from memory, lore, or educated guesses; every answer must be grounded in fact and verified in print."
„The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satff
- sstaff
- staf
- stfaf
- sttaff
- tsaff
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of staff - 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 "staff", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).