ste
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The verdict
“ste” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,778) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,778
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs biti
Corpus desk
Index DE-ste · ste · German
ste · rank #25,778 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,778
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Starnberg
Nearest frequency peer: Starnberg (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “ste”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Stalker
Stalker
74,226 corpus weight
- Stammbaum
Stammbaum
74,225 corpus weight
- Starnberg
Starnberg
74,224 corpus weight
- ste
ste
74,223 corpus weight
- Steaks
Steaks
74,222 corpus weight
- Sternzeichen
Sternzeichen
74,221 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ste” against nearest ranked German headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | ste |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “ste” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ste is neighbouring look-alikes ("SV", "SZ", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced […]. Frequency #25,778 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs biti".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ste, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SV", "SZ", "SW", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is ste, spelled S-T-E.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs biti
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 "ste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).