stellen
[ˈʃtɛlən]
The verdict
“stellen” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #370. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #370
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - senkrecht, mit den Füßen den Boden, einen bestimmten Platz oder Gegenstand berührend, in eine bestimmte oder übliche Position bringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-stellen · stellen · German
stellen · rank #370 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #370
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH online
Nearest frequency peer: online (-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 „stellen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- leider
leider
99,634 corpus weight
- musste
musste
99,633 corpus weight
- online
online
99,632 corpus weight
- stellen
stellen
99,631 corpus weight
- Tage
Tage
99,630 corpus weight
- Unternehmen
Unternehmen
99,629 corpus weight
What this shows „stellen“ 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 | stellen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɛlən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „stellen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around stellen (IPA [ˈʃtɛlən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #370 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for stellen, with forms such as "setllen", "sstellen", and "steleln". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stellt", "Stille", "Steven", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is stellen, spelled S-T-E-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1senkrecht, mit den Füßen den Boden, einen bestimmten Platz oder Gegenstand berührend, in eine bestimmte oder übliche Position bringen
- 2einstellen, etwas justieren
- 3sich einer Situation aussetzen ( sich bewusst von der Polizei verhaften lassen)
- 4etwas fangen
- 5etwas Eigenes zu einer Gegebenheit beisteuern, etwas kostenlos einbringen
- 6zum Beispiel: eine Frage stellen = fragen, einen Antrag stellen = beantragen; Angelegenheit in eine sprachliche Form fassen
- 7so tun, als ob die genannte Eigenschaft zutreffen würde
- 8einen bestimmten Preis haben, eine bestimmte Summe kosten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stellen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er stellte die Vase auf den Tisch.
Das Kind stellte sich auf den Stuhl.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- setllen
- sstellen
- steleln
- stellenn
- stellne
- stlelen
- sttellen
- tsellen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stellen - 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 "stellen", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).