Stausee
[ˈʃtaʊ̯ˌzeː]
The verdict
“Stausee” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,786
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein See, der mit Hilfe einer Talsperre erzeugt wird, um Wasser zu sammeln
Corpus desk
Index DE-stausee · Stausee · German
Stausee · rank #32,786 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,786
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH statistischer
Nearest frequency peer: statistischer (-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 „Stausee“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Standbein
Standbein
67,218 corpus weight
- statistisch…
statistischer
67,216 corpus weight
- Stausee
Stausee
67,215 corpus weight
- steinerne
steinerne
67,214 corpus weight
- steppe
steppe
67,213 corpus weight
- stritten
stritten
67,212 corpus weight
What this shows „Stausee“ 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 | Stausee |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaʊ̯ˌzeː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Stausee“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Stausee (IPA [ˈʃtaʊ̯ˌzeː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,786 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ein See, der mit Hilfe einer Talsperre erzeugt wird, um Wasser zu sammeln".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Stausee, with forms such as "satusee", "sstausee", and "stasuee". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Staus", "sausen", "staune", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Stausee, spelled S-T-A-U-S-E-E.
Definition
- 1ein See, der mit Hilfe einer Talsperre erzeugt wird, um Wasser zu sammeln
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stausee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit dem Wasser des Stausees werden riesige Turbinen angetrieben, um Strom zu erzeugen.
„Kennzeichnend für diese einzigartige Naturlandschaft sind die zahlreichen Bäche, Flüsse, Stauseen sowie die großflächigen Laubwälder mit ihrer seltenen Flora und Fauna.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satusee
- sstausee
- stasuee
- stauese
- stause
- staussee
- sttausee
- stuasee
- tsausee
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Stausee - 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 "Stausee", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).