Stamm
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,765
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Stamm is aGermannoun. It means: Teil des Baumes zwischen Wurzel und Krone Pronounced [ʃtam]. It ranks #5,765 in German word frequency. Often confused with Star and Stau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stamm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃtam] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Stamm is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃtam]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,765 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Stamm, with forms such as "satmm", "sstamm", and "stam". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Star", "Stau", "stan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Stamm, spelled S-T-A-M-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Teil des Baumes zwischen Wurzel und Krone
- 2größere Gruppe von Menschen mit ethnischen Gemeinsamkeiten
- 3Element der biologischen Taxonomie
- 4kleine bearbeitbare Gruppe niederer Lebewesen
- 5personelle Grundlage, personeller Bestand bei Betrieben, beim Militär, in der Seefahrt und anderen Organisationen oder Zusammenschlüssen
- 6einfache oder komplexe Grundform der Flexion eines Wortes (Wortstamm)
- 7Grundwort einer Wortfamilie
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: satmm,sstamm,stam,stmam,sttamm,tsamm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Stamm"
Frequency rank: #5,765 in German
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Nearby German words
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