stell
[ʃtɛl]
The verdict
“stell” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #3,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,077
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stellen
Corpus desk
Index DE-stell · stell · German
stell · rank #3,077 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,077
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH spannend
Nearest frequency peer: spannend (-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 „stell“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- schweigen
schweigen
96,927 corpus weight
- Songs
Songs
96,926 corpus weight
- spannend
spannend
96,925 corpus weight
- stell
stell
96,924 corpus weight
- stirbt
stirbt
96,923 corpus weight
- Stücke
Stücke
96,922 corpus weight
What this shows „stell“ 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 | stell |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃtɛl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „stell“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around stell (IPA [ʃtɛl]), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,077 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stellen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for stell, with forms such as "setll", "sstell", and "stel". 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, "Stil", "step", "stolz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is stell, spelled S-T-E-L-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stellen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- setll
- sstell
- stel
- stlel
- sttell
- tsell
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stell - 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 "stell", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).