Stichtag
[ˈʃtɪçˌtaːk]
The verdict
“Stichtag” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,783. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,783
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - festgesetzter Termin, bis zu dem eine genau definierte Maßnahme erfolgen muss
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 | Stichtag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɪçˌtaːk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Stichtag” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Stichtag (IPA [ˈʃtɪçˌtaːk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,783 among 107,600 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "festgesetzter Termin, bis zu dem eine genau definierte Maßnahme erfolgen muss".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Stichtag, with forms such as "sitchtag", "sstichtag", and "stcihtag". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sticht", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Stichtag, spelled S-T-I-C-H-T-A-G.
Definition
- 1festgesetzter Termin, bis zu dem eine genau definierte Maßnahme erfolgen muss
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sitchtag,sstichtag,stcihtag,sticchtag,stichatg,stichhtag,stichtagg,stichtga,stichttag,sticthag,stihctag,sttichtag,tsichtag
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Stichtag - 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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Using “Stichtag”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-I-C-H-T-A-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃtɪçˌtaːk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sticht” - see the side-by-side comparison. Stichtag vs sticht
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.