stapeln
[ˈʃtaːpl̩n]
The verdict
“stapeln” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #26,625. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,625
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ordentlich aufeinanderlegen, einen Stapel bilden
Corpus desk
Index DE-stapeln · stapeln · German
stapeln · rank #26,625 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,625
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stadtbahn
Nearest frequency peer: Stadtbahn (-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 „stapeln“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Staatskanzl…
Staatskanzlei
73,378 corpus weight
- Stadtbahn
Stadtbahn
73,377 corpus weight
- stapeln
stapeln
73,376 corpus weight
- stetigen
stetigen
73,375 corpus weight
- steuerlichen
steuerlichen
73,374 corpus weight
- Stichprobe
Stichprobe
73,373 corpus weight
What this shows „stapeln“ 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 | stapeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaːpl̩n] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „stapeln“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around stapeln (IPA [ˈʃtaːpl̩n]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,625 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for stapeln, with forms such as "satpeln", "sstapeln", and "staepln". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "stempeln", "Stapel", "Staffeln", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is stapeln, spelled S-T-A-P-E-L-N.
Definition
- 1ordentlich aufeinanderlegen, einen Stapel bilden
- 2etwas in größerer Anzahl anhäufen; quantitativ anwachsen
- 3sich zahlreich ansammeln, Haufen bilden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stapeln appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vor dem Winter hatte er das Brennholz unter dem Vordach gestapelt.
„Die Habseligkeiten der Sträflinge mussten zwischen den Beinen auf dem Boden gestapelt werden.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satpeln
- sstapeln
- staepln
- stapelln
- stapelnn
- stapenl
- staplen
- stappeln
- stpaeln
- sttapeln
- tsapeln
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stapeln - 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 "stapeln", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).