stören
[ˈʃtøːʁən]
The verdict
“stören” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #4,390 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #4,390
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - jemanden bei etwas belästigen, von etwas ablenken, einen Vorgang hemmen, ein Vorhaben hemmen, ärgerlicherweise aufhalten
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 | stören |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtøːʁən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stören” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for stören is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtøːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,390 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for stören, with forms such as "sstören", "ströen", and "sttören". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "story", "stört", "storm", 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. The correct German form is stören, spelled S-T-Ö-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden bei etwas belästigen, von etwas ablenken, einen Vorgang hemmen, ein Vorhaben hemmen, ärgerlicherweise aufhalten
- 2negative Auswirkungen auf etwas haben
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sstören,ströen,sttören,stöern,störenn,störne,störren,sötren,tsören
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stören - 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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Using “stören”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-Ö-R-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃtøːʁən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “story” - see the side-by-side comparison. stören vs story
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.