stone
[stəʊn]
The verdict
“stone” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,099. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,099
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stein
Corpus desk
Index DE-stone · stone · German
stone · rank #9,099 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,099
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spritzen
Nearest frequency peer: Spritzen (-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 „stone“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Sonnenunter…
Sonnenuntergang
90,905 corpus weight
- Spinner
Spinner
90,904 corpus weight
- Spritzen
Spritzen
90,903 corpus weight
- stone
stone
90,902 corpus weight
- Stopp
Stopp
90,901 corpus weight
- strenge
strenge
90,900 corpus weight
What this shows „stone“ 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 | stone |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [stəʊn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „stone“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around stone (IPA [stəʊn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,099 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Stein".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for stone, with forms such as "sotne", "sstone", and "stnoe". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stop", "Szene", "story", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is stone, spelled S-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Stein
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He who is without sin throws the first stone.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sotne
- sstone
- stnoe
- stoen
- stonne
- sttone
- tsone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stone - 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 "stone", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).