stirbt

/[ʃtɪʁpt]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,078

in German word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

stirbt is aGermanverb. It means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sterben Pronounced [ʃtɪʁpt]. It ranks #3,078 in German word frequency. Often confused with stört and Stirn.

Key facts for stirbt
PropertyValue
Headwordstirbt
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ʃtɪʁpt]
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,078
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of stirbt in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for stirbt is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃtɪʁpt]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,078 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sterben".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for stirbt, with forms such as "sitrbt", "sstirbt", and "stibrt". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "stört", "Stirn", "stürzt", 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 stirbt, spelled S-T-I-R-B-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sterben

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: sitrbt,sstirbt,stibrt,stirbbt,stirbtt,stirrbt,stirtb,stribt,sttirbt,tsirbt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for stirbt

Misspelling Variants of "stirbt"

sitrbt6sstirbt7stibrt6stirbbt7stirbtt7stirrbt7stirtb6stribt6
Misspelling Variants of "stirbt"

Frequency rank: #3,078 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stirbt"?
"stirbt" is spelled S-T-I-R-B-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃtɪʁpt].
What does "stirbt" mean?
As a verb, "stirbt" means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sterben
What words are commonly confused with "stirbt"?
"stirbt" is commonly confused with "stört", "Stirn", "stürzt". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "stirbt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stirbt" is [ʃtɪʁpt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "stirbt" come from?
"stirbt" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.