stillschweigen
[ˈʃtɪlˌʃvaɪ̯ɡn̩]
The verdict
“stillschweigen” has 21 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,289
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nichts sagen, sondern still sein; schweigen
Corpus desk
Index DE-stillschweigen · stillschweigen · German
stillschweigen · rank #32,289 · 21 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,289
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stereotype
Nearest frequency peer: Stereotype (-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 „stillschweigen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Stalins
Stalins
67,717 corpus weight
- Statistiker
Statistiker
67,716 corpus weight
- Stecher
Stecher
67,715 corpus weight
- Stereotype
Stereotype
67,713 corpus weight
- stillschwei…
stillschweigen
67,712 corpus weight
- stilvoll
stilvoll
67,711 corpus weight
What this shows „stillschweigen“ 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 | stillschweigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɪlˌʃvaɪ̯ɡn̩] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #32,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „stillschweigen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around stillschweigen (IPA [ˈʃtɪlˌʃvaɪ̯ɡn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,289 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for stillschweigen, with forms such as "sitllschweigen", "sstillschweigen", and "stillcshweigen". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "stillschweigend", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 stillschweigen, spelled S-T-I-L-L-S-C-H-W-E-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1nichts sagen, sondern still sein; schweigen
- 2bei der Geheimhaltung von etwas verschwiegen sein und sich (bei Nachfrage) nicht äußern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stillschweigen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Während sich ihre Eltern lautstark stritten, saß sie ruhig daneben und schwieg still.
Nach dem Treffen schworen sie, über das Vereinbarte um jeden Preis stillzuschweigen.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sitllschweigen
- sstillschweigen
- stillcshweigen
- stillscchweigen
- stillschewigen
- stillschhweigen
- stillschwegien
- stillschweiegn
- stillschweigenn
- stillschweiggen
- stillschweigne
- stillschwiegen
- stillschwweigen
- stillscwheigen
- stillshcweigen
- stillsschweigen
- stilschweigen
- stilslchweigen
- stlilschweigen
- sttillschweigen
- tsillschweigen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stillschweigen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).