Stifter
[ˈʃtɪftɐ]
The verdict
“Stifter” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,080. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,080
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die etwas stiftet
Corpus desk
Index DE-stifter · Stifter · German
Stifter · rank #18,080 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,080
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stichwahl
Nearest frequency peer: Stichwahl (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Stifter”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Steckdose
Steckdose
81,924 corpus weight
- Sterling
Sterling
81,923 corpus weight
- Stichwahl
Stichwahl
81,922 corpus weight
- Stifter
Stifter
81,921 corpus weight
- Ständer
Ständer
81,920 corpus weight
- Suchmaschine
Suchmaschine
81,919 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Stifter” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Stifter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɪftɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Stifter” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Stifter (IPA [ˈʃtɪftɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,080 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die etwas stiftet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Stifter, with forms such as "sitfter", "sstifter", and "stfiter". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Stifts", "stiller", "Stiftes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Stifter, spelled S-T-I-F-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die etwas stiftet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stifter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Eigentum verpflichtet - nach diesem Motto handeln die meisten Stifter und setzten sich für Notleidende oder gegen ein konkretes Problem ein.“
„Niemand nahm es so genau, denn man hätte den edlen Stifter ja verärgern können.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sitfter
- sstifter
- stfiter
- stifetr
- stiffter
- stifterr
- stiftre
- stiftter
- stitfer
- sttifter
- tsifter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Stifter - 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 "Stifter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Stifter". Here's where to go from here.
- "Stifter" maps to 15 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Stifts". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #18,080 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.