stempeln
[ˈʃtɛmpl̩n]
The verdict
“stempeln” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,647. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,647
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas (mit einem Stempel) markieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-stempeln · stempeln · German
stempeln · rank #36,647 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,647
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH stimmst
Nearest frequency peer: stimmst (+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 „stempeln“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Stadtplaner
Stadtplaner
63,358 corpus weight
- Standardisi…
Standardisierung
63,357 corpus weight
- Steigungen
Steigungen
63,356 corpus weight
- stempeln
stempeln
63,354 corpus weight
- stimmst
stimmst
63,353 corpus weight
- stimmts
stimmts
63,352 corpus weight
What this shows „stempeln“ 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 | stempeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɛmpl̩n] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „stempeln“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around stempeln (IPA [ˈʃtɛmpl̩n]), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,647 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for stempeln, with forms such as "setmpeln", "sstempeln", and "stemepln". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Steppen", "Stempel", "stemmen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is stempeln, spelled S-T-E-M-P-E-L-N.
Definition
- 1etwas (mit einem Stempel) markieren
- 2etwas (mit einem Stempel) entwerten
- 3arbeitslos sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stempeln appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Bauern sind beinahe alle Analphabeten, das sind aber auch viele der großen Fürsten, die sich metallene Petschaften mit ihrer Unterschrift gravieren lassen, sodass sie Dokumente nicht unterzeichnen müssen, sondern nur zu stempeln brauchen und damit verhehlen könnnen, dass sie unfähig sind, ihren eigenen erlauchten Namen zu schreiben.“
Durch die verlorene Berufung ist er jetzt auf ewig zum Verbrecher gestempelt.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- setmpeln
- sstempeln
- stemepln
- stemmpeln
- stempelln
- stempelnn
- stempenl
- stemplen
- stemppeln
- stepmeln
- stmepeln
- sttempeln
- tsempeln
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stempeln - 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 "stempeln", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).