Stamm

/[ʃtam]/ noun

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.

Key facts for Stamm
PropertyValue
HeadwordStamm
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʃtam]
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,765
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Stamm in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Teil des Baumes zwischen Wurzel und Krone
  2. 2
    größere Gruppe von Menschen mit ethnischen Gemeinsamkeiten
  3. 3
    Element der biologischen Taxonomie
  4. 4
    kleine bearbeitbare Gruppe niederer Lebewesen
  5. 5
    personelle Grundlage, personeller Bestand bei Betrieben, beim Militär, in der Seefahrt und anderen Organisationen oder Zusammenschlüssen
  6. 6
    einfache oder komplexe Grundform der Flexion eines Wortes (Wortstamm)
  7. 7
    Grundwort einer Wortfamilie

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: satmm,sstamm,stam,stmam,sttamm,tsamm

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Stamm

Misspelling Variants of "Stamm"

satmm5sstamm6stam4stmam5sttamm6tsamm5
Misspelling Variants of "Stamm"

Frequency rank: #5,765 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Stamm"?
"Stamm" is spelled S-T-A-M-M. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃtam].
What does "Stamm" mean?
As a noun, "Stamm" means: Teil des Baumes zwischen Wurzel und Krone
What words are commonly confused with "Stamm"?
"Stamm" is commonly confused with "Star", "Stau", "stan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Stamm"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Stamm" is [ʃtam]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Stamm" come from?
"Stamm" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.