steh
[ʃteː]
The verdict
“steh” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,884. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,884
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-steh · steh · German
steh · rank #5,884 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,884
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH starben
Nearest frequency peer: starben (-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 „steh“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- son
son
94,120 corpus weight
- sorgte
sorgte
94,119 corpus weight
- starben
starben
94,118 corpus weight
- steh
steh
94,117 corpus weight
- Steigerung
Steigerung
94,116 corpus weight
- Stoffe
Stoffe
94,115 corpus weight
What this shows „steh“ 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 | steh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃteː] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „steh“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around steh (IPA [ʃteː]), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,884 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stehen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for steh, with forms such as "ssteh", "stehh", and "sthe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sue", "STK", "stu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is steh, spelled S-T-E-H.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stehen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ssteh
- stehh
- sthe
- stteh
- tseh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of steh - 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 "steh", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).