Stolperstein
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,255
in German word usage
Misspellings
19
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Stolperstein is aGermannoun. It means: (aus dem Pflaster ragender, auf dem Gehweg liegender) Stein, über den jemand stolpern kann; Pflastersteinplatte, die uneben im Gehweg liegt und so eine potenzielle Gefahr zu stolpern darstellt Pronounced [ˈʃtɔlpɐˌʃtaɪ̯n]. Often confused with Stolpersteine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stolperstein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɔlpɐˌʃtaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #44,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Stolperstein is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtɔlpɐˌʃtaɪ̯n]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,255 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for Stolperstein, with forms such as "sotlperstein", "sstolperstein", and "stloperstein". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Stolpersteine", 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 Stolperstein, spelled S-T-O-L-P-E-R-S-T-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(aus dem Pflaster ragender, auf dem Gehweg liegender) Stein, über den jemand stolpern kann; Pflastersteinplatte, die uneben im Gehweg liegt und so eine potenzielle Gefahr zu stolpern darstellt
- 2bildlich:
- 3etwas, durch das die Verwirklichung eines Vorhabens, das Erreichen eines Ziels oder dergleichen leicht scheitern beziehungsweise das jemandes gutes Ansehen ruinieren kann
- 4Architektur:
- 5mit einer Messingplakette bestückter Pflasterstein, der zum Gedenken an eine/n während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus verfolgte/n, ermordete/n, deportierte/n, vertriebene/n oder in den Suizid getriebene/n Mitbürger/in (Juden, Sinti und Roma, politisch Verfolgte, Homosexuelle, Zeugen Jehovas, Behinderte) vor dessen/deren früherem Wohnhaus in den Gehweg eingelassen und mit den Daten des Opfers versehen ist
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sotlperstein,sstolperstein,stloperstein,stoleprstein,stollperstein,stolperrstein,stolpersetin,stolpersstein,stolpersteinn,stolpersteni,stolperstien,stolpersttein,stolpertsein,stolpesrtein,stolpperstein,stolprestein,stoplerstein,sttolperstein,tsolperstein
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Stolperstein"
Frequency rank: #44,255 in German
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