Stift
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,108
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Stift is aGermannoun. It means: künstlich hergestellter länglicher, meist zylindrischer Körper aus Metall oder Holz, oft mit einer Spitze, der vielfachen Verwendungsmöglichkeiten dient Pronounced [ʃtɪft]. It ranks #6,108 in German word frequency. Often confused with Stil and Stoff.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stift |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃtɪft] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Stift is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃtɪft]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,108 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 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 Stift, with forms such as "sitft", "sstift", and "stfit". 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, "Stil", "Stoff", "still", 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 Stift, spelled S-T-I-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1künstlich hergestellter länglicher, meist zylindrischer Körper aus Metall oder Holz, oft mit einer Spitze, der vielfachen Verwendungsmöglichkeiten dient
- 2(dünner) Nagel, (speziell) Nagel ohne Kopf
- 3länglicher, zum Teil spitzer Körper ohne besondere Differenzierung – oft aus Metall
- 4dünner, länglicher, spitzer Körper zum Befestigen eines künstlichen Zahnes in einer Zahnwurzel
- 5Maschinenelement zum Verbinden von Teilen und zum Sichern gegen deren willkürliches Lösen
- 6länglicher, spitzer Gegenstand natürlichen Ursprungs
- 7Stängel von Pflanzen
- 8Dorn der Pflanzen
- 9Stachel eines Tiers, steifes Haar, Zahnstumpf
- 10Pfahl, Stamm eines Baumes
- 11Schreibgerät
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sitft,sstift,stfit,stifft,stiftt,stitf,sttift,tsift
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Stift"
Frequency rank: #6,108 in German
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