stellen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#370
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
stellen is aGermanverb. It means: senkrecht, mit den Füßen den Boden, einen bestimmten Platz oder Gegenstand berührend, in eine bestimmte oder übliche Position bringen Pronounced [ˈʃtɛlən]. It ranks #370 in German word frequency. Often confused with stellt and Stille.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for stellen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtɛlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #370 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for stellen, with forms such as "setllen", "sstellen", and "steleln". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is stellen, spelled S-T-E-L-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: setllen,sstellen,steleln,stellenn,stellne,stlelen,sttellen,tsellen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for stellen
Misspelling Variants of "stellen"
Frequency rank: #370 in German
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