Stärkung
[ˈʃtɛʁkʊŋ]
The verdict
“Stärkung” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,994. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,994
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Befestigung/Förderung/Unterstützung von jemandem oder etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-starkung · Stärkung · German
Stärkung · rank #7,994 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,994
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Strategien
Nearest frequency peer: Strategien (-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 „Stärkung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Steinen
Steinen
92,010 corpus weight
- Stiefel
Stiefel
92,009 corpus weight
- Strategien
Strategien
92,008 corpus weight
- Stärkung
Stärkung
92,007 corpus weight
- stürzte
stürzte
92,006 corpus weight
- Sünde
Sünde
92,005 corpus weight
What this shows „Stärkung“ 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 | Stärkung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɛʁkʊŋ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Stärkung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Stärkung (IPA [ˈʃtɛʁkʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,994 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Stärkung, with forms such as "sstärkung", "sträkung", and "sttärkung". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Störung", "stärken", "Stalking", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Stärkung, spelled S-T-Ä-R-K-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Befestigung/Förderung/Unterstützung von jemandem oder etwas
- 2kleine Zwischenmahlzeit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stärkung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mit der stärkeren Orientierung Ungarns Richtung Westen sei auch ein Rückgang des Russischen als Pflichtsprache und eine Stärkung des Deutschen und Englischen einhergegangen.“
Nachdem sie die Hälfte des Weges geschafft hatten, brauchten sie eine kleine Stärkung.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sstärkung
- sträkung
- sttärkung
- stäkrung
- stärkkung
- stärknug
- stärkugn
- stärkungg
- stärkunng
- stärrkung
- stärukng
- sätrkung
- tsärkung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Stärkung - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Stärkung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).