stan
[ˈstaːn]
The verdict
“stan” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,676
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wohnung
Corpus desk
Index DE-stan · stan · German
stan · rank #14,676 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,676
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spin
Nearest frequency peer: Spin (-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 „stan“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- sortieren
sortieren
85,328 corpus weight
- sounds
sounds
85,327 corpus weight
- Spin
Spin
85,326 corpus weight
- stan
stan
85,325 corpus weight
- starteten
starteten
85,324 corpus weight
- states
states
85,323 corpus weight
What this shows „stan“ 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 | stan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈstaːn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „stan“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around stan (IPA [ˈstaːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,676 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 stan, with forms such as "satn", "sstan", and "stann". 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, "Sun", "ste", "syn", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is stan, spelled S-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Wohnung
- 2Unterkunft, Quartier, Behausung
- 3Webstuhl
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satn
- sstan
- stann
- stna
- sttan
- tsan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stan - 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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "stan", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).