sticht
[ʃtɪçt]
The verdict
“sticht” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,948. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,948
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stechen
Corpus desk
Index DE-sticht · sticht · German
sticht · rank #13,948 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,948
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH steilen
Nearest frequency peer: steilen (-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 „sticht“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Spinne
Spinne
86,056 corpus weight
- steif
steif
86,055 corpus weight
- steilen
steilen
86,054 corpus weight
- sticht
sticht
86,053 corpus weight
- Stier
Stier
86,052 corpus weight
- Streiks
Streiks
86,051 corpus weight
What this shows „sticht“ 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 | sticht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃtɪçt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „sticht“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sticht (IPA [ʃtɪçt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,948 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stechen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sticht, with forms such as "sitcht", "ssticht", and "stciht". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sucht", "Stift", "stick", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 sticht, spelled S-T-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stechen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sitcht
- ssticht
- stciht
- sticcht
- stichht
- stichtt
- sticth
- stihct
- stticht
- tsicht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sticht - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "sticht", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).