statt
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#315
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
statt is aGermanconj. It means: schließt zusammen mit der Infinitivkonjunktion ›zu‹ einen abhängigen Infinitiv an und zeigt einen Gegensatz/ eine SubstitutionSubstitutiondefiniert) -> »statt zu« Pronounced [ʃtat]. It ranks #315 in German word frequency. Often confused with Stau and stay.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | statt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Conj |
| IPA | [ʃtat] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for statt is 5 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃtat]. Corpus data places it at rank #315 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 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 statt, with forms such as "sattt", "sstatt", and "stat". 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, "Stau", "stay", "steht", 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 statt, spelled S-T-A-T-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1schließt zusammen mit der Infinitivkonjunktion ›zu‹ einen abhängigen Infinitiv an und zeigt einen Gegensatz/ eine SubstitutionSubstitutiondefiniert) -> »statt zu«
- 2leitet zusammen mit der Konjunktion (genauer: Subjunktion) ›dass‹ einen Adversativsatz/Substitutivsatz ein -> »statt dass«
- 3steht für „und nicht“, das folgende Wort steht in dem Kasus, den das verwendete Verb fordert
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sattt,sstatt,stat,sttat,sttatt,tsatt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for statt
Misspelling Variants of "statt"
Frequency rank: #315 in German
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