stemmen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,417
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
stemmen is aGermanverb. It means: etwas Schweres in die Höhe heben Pronounced [ˈʃtɛmən]. Often confused with Stimme and Steven.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stemmen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɛmən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for stemmen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtɛmən]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,417 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for stemmen, with forms such as "setmmen", "sstemmen", and "stememn". 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, "Stimme", "Steven", "summen", 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 stemmen, spelled S-T-E-M-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas Schweres in die Höhe heben
- 2gegen etwas drücken
- 3mittels Werkzeugen ein Loch, eine Vertiefung in ein Material machen
- 4Widerstand leisten
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: setmmen,sstemmen,stememn,stemen,stemmenn,stemmne,stmemen,sttemmen,tsemmen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for stemmen
Misspelling Variants of "stemmen"
Frequency rank: #20,417 in German
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