staunen
[ˈʃtaʊ̯nən]
The verdict
“staunen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,752. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,752
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich über etwas wundern
Corpus desk
Index DE-staunen · staunen · German
staunen · rank #10,752 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,752
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Soul
Nearest frequency peer: Soul (-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 „staunen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- sim
sim
89,252 corpus weight
- Singapur
Singapur
89,251 corpus weight
- Soul
Soul
89,250 corpus weight
- staunen
staunen
89,249 corpus weight
- Straftat
Straftat
89,248 corpus weight
- Swiss
Swiss
89,247 corpus weight
What this shows „staunen“ 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 | staunen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaʊ̯nən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „staunen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around staunen (IPA [ˈʃtaʊ̯nən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,752 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sich über etwas wundern".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for staunen, with forms such as "satunen", "sstaunen", and "stanuen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Stufen", "staunt", "Stuben", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is staunen, spelled S-T-A-U-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich über etwas wundern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how staunen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Aber dann staunte sie nicht schlecht, als Karl mit dem Pferd zu reden anfing wie mit einem alten Bekannten…“
„Da hat ein 49-jähriger Wiener nicht schlecht gestaunt, als er sich die gerade geschossenen Landschaftsfotos auf einer neu gekauften Speicherkarte angeschaut hat.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satunen
- sstaunen
- stanuen
- stauenn
- staunenn
- staunne
- staunnen
- sttaunen
- stuanen
- tsaunen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of staunen - 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 "staunen", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).